title: Multivariate autoregressive modeling and granger causality analysis of multiple spike trains.
abstract: Recent years have seen the emergence of microelectrode arrays and optical methods allowing simultaneous recording of spiking activity from populations of neurons in various parts of the nervous system. The analysis of multiple neural spike train data could benefit significantly from existing methods for multivariate time-series analysis which have proven to be very powerful in the modeling and analysis of continuous neural signals like EEG signals. However, those methods have not generally been well adapted to point processes. Here, we use our recent results on correlation distortions in multivariate Linear-Nonlinear-Poisson spiking neuron models to derive generalized Yule-Walker-type equations for fitting ''hidden" Multivariate Autoregressive models. We use this new framework to perform Granger causality analysis in order to extract the directed information flow pattern in networks of simulated spiking neurons. We discuss the relative merits and limitations of the new method.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, 32000 Haifa, Israel.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Krumin
authors.forename: Shy
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Shoham
mesh_terms: D000200:Action Potentials; D000465:Algorithms; D000818:Animals; D001331:Automation; D003198:Computer Simulation; D016014:Linear Models; D008959:Models, Neurological; D015233:Models, Statistical; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D009434:Neural Pathways / Q000502:physiology; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D017711:Nonlinear Dynamics; D016011:Normal Distribution; D016012:Poisson Distribution; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted
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