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Beyond correlation analysis: Granger causality

Posted on March 15, 2014 by P.T.R. Rupprecht

Granger causality has been named after the econometrician Clive Granger and has been adapted in the last 10-15 years as time-series analysis tool for neuroscience. The best account for this topic that I have found, is on scholarpedia again (link). … Continue reading →

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Some interesting 2-photon microscopy papers

Posted on March 13, 2014 by P.T.R. Rupprecht

In the last few months, I built a special kind of 2P-microsope. In the meantime, I encountered some papers on microscope techniques which I found interesting and worth a side-note. Using AODs instead of galvoscanners for point-scanning: High-speed in vivo … Continue reading →

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Beyond correlation analysis: incremental mutual information

Posted on March 12, 2014 by P.T.R. Rupprecht

Incremental Mutual Information: A New Method for Characterizing the Strength and Dynamics of Connections in Neuronal Circuits is a 2010 paper by A. Singh and N. Lesica in PLoS Computational Biology that describes a method which can be used as an … Continue reading →

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