Spike count consisted of counting all spikes for each neuron within the window.
This sets up the message of Figure 6, which is that spike count variability during touch is minimal once these touch characteristics are considered.
(D ) Spike pattern Coefficient of Variation (left) and spike count Fano factors (right) during speech presentation.
For mean spike count <1 the minimum FF corresponds to binomial spiking, with FF = 1- mean spike count (Berry et al., 1997).
The gain provided by spike phase increased when enlarging the window and when combined with either spike count or spike pattern (Spike Count vs Time-partitioned; Spike count and Phase-partitioned code vs Time- and Phase-partitioned code).
Cross-correlation between two cells' spiking activities was computed as a normalized spike count correlation.
For example, for a mean spike count equal to 0.5/touch, the minimum FF is produced with one spike in half of the trials (DeWeese et al., 2003).
We show that spikes in L4 are temporally precise and have spike count variance close to the theoretical minimum.
The output of the μ th stochastic point process can be described by the spike count.
We use this relation to link the inhomogeneous to the homogeneous spike count via (32).
