Measuring spike train synchrony
arXiv:physics/0701261 · doi:10.1016/j.jneumeth.2007.05.031
Abstract
Estimating the degree of synchrony or reliability between two or more spike trains is a frequent task in both experimental and computational neuroscience. In recent years, many different methods have been proposed that typically compare the timing of spikes on a certain time scale to be fixed beforehand. Here, we propose the ISI-distance, a simple complementary approach that extracts information from the interspike intervals by evaluating the ratio of the instantaneous frequencies. The method is parameter free, time scale independent and easy to visualize as illustrated by an application to real neuronal spike trains obtained in vitro from rat slices. In a comparison with existing approaches on spike trains extracted from a simulated Hindemarsh-Rose network, the ISI-distance performs as well as the best time-scale-optimized measure based on spike timing.
11 pages, 13 figures; v2: minor modifications; v3: minor modifications, added link to webpage that includes the Matlab Source Code for the method (http://inls.ucsd.edu/~kreuz/Source-Code/Spike-Sync.html)
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