@article{3744,
  abstract     = {It is widely acknowledged that detailed timing of action potentials is used to encode information, for example, in auditory pathways; however, the computational tools required to analyze encoding through timing are still in their infancy. We present a simple example of encoding, based on a recent model of time-frequency analysis, in which units fire action potentials when a certain condition is met, but the timing of the action potential depends also on other features of the stimulus. We show that, as a result, spike-triggered averages are smoothed so much that they do not represent the true features of the encoding. Inspired by this example, we present a simple method, differential reverse correlations, that can separate an analysis of what causes a neuron to spike, and what controls its timing. We analyze with this method the leaky integrate-and-fire neuron and show the method accurately reconstructs the model's kernel.},
  author       = {Tkacik, Gasper and Magnasco, Marcelo},
  issn         = {1872-8324},
  journal      = {Biosystems},
  number       = {1-2},
  pages        = {90 -- 100},
  publisher    = {Elsevier},
  title        = {{Decoding spike timing: The differential reverse-correlation method}},
  doi          = {10.1016/j.biosystems.2008.04.011},
  volume       = {93},
  year         = {2008},
}