title: Detection of synchronized firings in multivariate neural spike trains during motor tasks.
abstract: This paper describes and compares two classical methods for the detection of neuron groups which exhibit synchronized firings in multivariate spike trains. These methods were compared on experimental and randomized data corresponding to the firing activity of 104 neurons located in motor, premotor, and parietal cortices in a monkey during movement tasks. Both methods exhibited high false positive rates in randomized data, but results showed that this rate can be advantageously reduced with a simple postprocessing. Otherwise, one method permitted to detect a significant number of synchronized groups of neurons related to the behavioral task.
authors.affiliation: CREFA-Université Montpellier 1, 15 avenue Charles Flahault, Montpellier Cedex 5, France. jerome.bourien@univ-montp1.fr
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bourien
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Sanchez
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Bellanger
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Wendling
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Principe
mesh_terms: D000200:Action Potentials / Q000502:physiology*; D000465:Algorithms; D003198:Computer Simulation; D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D004569:Electroencephalography / Q000379:methods*; D019054:Evoked Potentials, Motor / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008959:Models, Neurological; D009043:Motor Activity / Q000502:physiology; D009044:Motor Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D009068:Movement / Q000502:physiology*; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis