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The spike count rate is the time average of the neural response function over the duration of the trial T

How does membrane permeability to K+ (PK) and Na+ (PNa) change during an action potential?

Changing the temperature of a squid giant axon from 20oC to 40oC would change the K+ equilibrium potential (Nernst potential) from about -75 mV to about

One potential way to deal with variability in the neural code is to average neural activity across multiple repeated trials. In doing so, the following objectives could be achieved

Information Theory measures:

Some notable differences between linear and Bayesian decoders (Choose all that apply)

Some of the limitations of decoding neural activity without knowledge of an underlying encoding mechanism (check all that apply)

If the data in a given class is Poisson distributed, the principal components capture all the statistics of the data and therefore can be used for classification.

The discriminability index in hypothesis testing provides a complete characterization of the decoding of a signal assuming that the noise follows a normal (Gaussian) distribution with a fixed variance, independent of the signal strength In the graphs below, different signal detection thresholds are shown. Check all that apply: A     B     C        

information theory can be used to estimate information transfer without making any assumptions about how the stimulus is encoded in the measured neural Activity.