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Precise time relations among spikes was reported by many authors and criticized by many. This chapter describes how such patterns may be detected and how to assess their statistical significance. The stress is on practical aspects of the methodology. The chapter illustrates examples of analysis of real data that were recorded in the cortex of behaving monkeys.
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Abeles, M. (2010). Spatio-Temporal Patterns. In: Grün, S., Rotter, S. (eds) Analysis of Parallel Spike Trains. Springer Series in Computational Neuroscience, vol 7. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5675-0_9
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