title: Dynamic programming algorithms for comparing multineuronal spike trains via cost-based metrics and alignments.
abstract: Cost-based metrics formalize notions of distance, or dissimilarity, between two spike trains, and are applicable to single- and multineuronal responses. As such, these metrics have been used to characterize neural variability and neural coding. By examining the structure of an efficient algorithm [Aronov D, 2003. Fast algorithm for the metric-space analysis of simultaneous responses of multiple single neurons. J Neurosci Methods 124(2), 175-79] implementing a metric for multineuronal responses, we determine criteria for its generalization, and identify additional efficiencies that are applicable when related dissimilarity measures are computed in parallel. The generalized algorithm provides the means to test a wide range of coding hypotheses.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology and Neuroscience, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, 1300 York Avenue, New York City, NY 10021, USA. jdvicto@med.cornell.edu
authors.forename: Jonathan D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Victor
authors.forename: David H
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Goldberg
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Gardner
mesh_terms: D000200:Action Potentials / Q000502:physiology*; D000465:Algorithms; D003198:Computer Simulation; D008959:Models, Neurological; D009415:Nerve Net / Q000502:physiology*; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D009716:Numerical Analysis, Computer-Assisted; D010363:Pattern Recognition, Automated / Q000379:methods*; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted