A spike train analysis for correlating burst firings in neurons

We introduced a multiple single-unit spike train analysis technique to dedu ce the burst firing patterns in one neuron that are temporally correlated t o the spike generation in another neuron. This analysis considers the contr ibution of temporal summation of burst firings in one neuron that is correl ated to the probability of spike firing in another neuron. The result shows that the analysis can extract the number of spikes and the duration of bur st pattern. (C) 2001 Published by Elsevier Science B.V.