Title
Dethroning the Fano Factor: A Flexible, Model-Based Approach to Partitioning Neural Variability.
Abstract
Neurons in many brain areas exhibit high trial-to-trial variability, with spike counts that are overdispersed relative to a Poisson distribution. Recent work (Goris, Movshon, & Simoncelli, 2014) has proposed to explain this variability in terms of a multiplicative interaction between a stochastic gain variable and a stimulus-dependent Poisson firing rate, which produces quadratic relationships bet...
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1162/neco_a_01062
Neural Computation
Keywords
Field
DocType
neural response variability,doubly stochastic models,over-dispersion,neural encoding models,closed-loop experiments
Statistical physics,Population,Mathematical optimization,Nonlinear system,Fano factor,Biology,Multiplicative function,Quadratic equation,Poisson distribution,Genetics,Gaussian noise,Bayesian probability
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
30
4
0899-7667
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.37
10
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Adam S. Charles111310.21
Park, Mijung2415.11
J. Patrick Weller310.37
Gregory D. Horwitz410.37
Pillow, Jonathan W.534639.95