Analysis of Parallel Spike Trains

Action potentials, or spikes, are the most salient expression of neuronal processing in the active brain, and they are likely an important key to understanding the neuronal mechanisms of behavior. However, it is the group dynamics of large networks of neurons that are likely to underlie brain function, and this can only he appreciated if the action potentials from multiple individual nerve cells are observed simultaneously. Techniques that employ multielectrodes for parallel spike train rec...