<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Hi,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">I have been using your FieldTrip Intracranial Spike Analysis package for a while. However, I am still confused by the statement listed on your website.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">"Cross-correlations between neurons can either arise because of common, time-locked fluctuations in the firing rate (Brody et al., 1999). These correlations are invariant to a change in the order of trials. The shuffling of trials in ft_spike_xcorr always pertains to two subsequent trials, in order to avoid an influence of slow changes in the firing rate across trials. We refer to this cross-correlogram that is obtained under a permutation of subsequent trials as the 'shift-predictor' cross-correlogram. If the observed features of the cross-correlogram that are not present in the shift-predictor cross-correlogram, then this indicates that they arise because of induced synchronous activity."</font><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">For the last sentence, would you please explained more about the "induced synchronous activity"? In my own understanding, this is the activity after the task or external stimulation. But if I want to know the synchronous or de-synchronous activity during the stimulation, how can I get the evidence from these cross-correlations and also the jpsth figures?</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Thank you so much!</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Best,</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">-Kai</font></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">Kai Yu</span></font><div>Biomedical Functional Imaging and Neuroengineering Laboratory<br>Department of Biomedical Engineering<br>University of Minnesota - Twin Cities<br><br></div></div></div>
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