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@ARTICLE{ObersteFrielinghaus:1048790,
author = {Oberste-Frielinghaus, Jonas and Ito, Junji and Grün,
Sonja},
title = {{T}he effect of data preprocessing on spike correlation
analysis results},
reportid = {FZJ-2025-04905},
year = {2025},
abstract = {In recent years, an increasing number of large
electrophysiological data sets have become publicly
available, thereby providing researcherswith the opportunity
to analyze spike train data without conducting their own
experiments.While this is undoubtedly a positive
development, it increases the need for proper documentation
on how the data were collected and what preprocessing was
performed on the data, since interpreting analysis results
in ignorance of these pieces of information can lead to
wrong conclusions. An important preprocessing step is the
removal of artifacts from the recordings.
Electrophysiological recordings are particularly susceptible
to electrical cross-talks between recording channels,
resulting in artifact spikes that are coincident in multiple
channels on the time scale of the data sampling rate, i.e.,
1/30 ms in popular setups. The removal by signal whitening
is only possible if also the raw sampled data are available,
thus to eliminate this type of artifact is to remove all
coincident spikes on the recording time scale to definitely
avoid artifact spikes. However, given the lack of the
``ground truth'' , this step has the potential to eliminate,
in conjunction with the artifacts, components of the data
that are pertinent to the research objective. In this study,
we use a modified version of the Unitary Event Analysis and
demonstrate that such preprocessing results in significantly
lower correlations than expected by chance even on longer
time scales. We also propose a method to correct for the
bias introduced by this preprocessing. Thus, slight changes
in the preprocessing have potentially strong impact on
analysis results and methods need to consider these
effects.},
cin = {IAS-6 / INM-10},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IAS-6-20130828 / I:(DE-Juel1)INM-10-20170113},
pnm = {5231 - Neuroscientific Foundations (POF4-523) / EBRAINS 2.0
- EBRAINS 2.0: A Research Infrastructure to Advance
Neuroscience and Brain Health (101147319) / GRK 2416 - GRK
2416: MultiSenses-MultiScales: Neue Ansätze zur Aufklärung
neuronaler multisensorischer Integration (368482240) / DFG
project G:(GEPRIS)561027837 - Einbettung neuronaler
Ensembles und deren Signaturen (561027837)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-5231 / G:(EU-Grant)101147319 /
G:(GEPRIS)368482240 / G:(GEPRIS)561027837},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)25},
doi = {10.1101/2025.11.28.691090},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1048790},
}