Estimation and analysis of stochastic biophysical neural models

A major goal is to establish closer links between the spike train coding properties of neurons and the underlying biophysical computations performed "below the threshold" and in the dendrites. Recent advances in voltage- and calcium-sensitive imaging methods have brought this goal closer to reality.

Paninski, L., Pillow, J., & Simoncelli, E. (2004). Maximum likelihood estimation of a stochastic integrate-and-fire neural encoding model. Neural Computation 16: 2533-2561.

Paninski, L., Pillow, J., & Simoncelli, E. (2004). Comparing integrate-and-fire-like models estimated using intracellular and extracellular data. Neurocomputing 65: 379-385.

Paninski, L. (2004). Maximum likelihood estimation of cascade point-process neural encoding models. Network: Computation in Neural Systems 15: 243-262.

Paninski, L. (2006). The most likely voltage path and large deviations approximations for integrate-and-fire neurons. Journal of Computational Neuroscience 21: 71-87.

Paninski (2006). The spike-triggered average of the integrate-and-fire cell driven by Gaussian white noise. Neural Computation 18: 2592-2616.

Huys, Q., Ahrens, M. & Paninski, L. (2006). Efficient estimation of detailed single-neuron models. Journal of Neurophysiology 96: 872-890.

Vogelstein, J., Watson, B., Packer, A., Yuste, R., Jedynak, B., and Paninski, L. (2008). Spike inference from calcium imaging using sequential Monte Carlo methods. Under review, Biophysical Journal.


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