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@INPROCEEDINGS{Kleinjohann:886075,
author = {Kleinjohann, Alexander and Sprenger, Julia and Essink,
Simon and Rotter, Stefan and Grün, Sonja},
title = {{M}odeling {T}emporally {P}recise {S}pike {A}rtefacts to
{S}tudy {T}heir {I}mpact on {S}pike {C}orrelation
{A}nalyses},
reportid = {FZJ-2020-04261},
year = {2020},
abstract = {Due to technical advances, the number of neurons recorded
in parallel increases drastically. This development reveals
new types of artefacts: Common noise and cross-talk are
observed in the raw parallel recording signals [1-3], as
well as hyper-synchronous spike events at sampling rate
precision in sorted spike data (‚synchrofacts‘; 3-5).
These likely originate from environmental electromagnetic
signals that couple into the recording signals. Here we
concentrate on synchrofacts and their effects on results of
spike data analyses, such as cross-correlation and
higher-order synchronous or spatio-temporal spike
patterns.In experimental data sets, e.g. recorded in macaque
M1/PM1 with 100-electrode Utah arrays and manually spike
sorted, we noticed synchrofacts in population histograms at
a bin size matching the sampling rate (30 kHz). The
complexity distribution [6], i.e. the histogram of
synchronous events of a certain size (number of spikes
across neurons) and their counts, shows entries up to 60,
far larger than predicted by independent data of the same
rate. Not all channels participate equally, but this is not
related to the spatial electrode distribution.To
systematically study the effects of the synchrofacts on
analysis results, we formulate a stochastic data generation
model in which we have control over synchrofacts,
‚neuronal‘ correlations and firing rates. We model
background activity as independent Poisson processes and
inject ‚neuronal‘ correlations and synchrofacts each
formulated by separate Compound Poisson Processes (CPPs,
7-8). A CPP generates synchronous events with event sizes
given by its amplitude distribution and inserts these spikes
randomly into the neuronal spike trains. To model the
observed synchrofacts we adapt the spike assignment with a
non-uniform assignment distribution.In the next step, we
apply various analysis methods to the artificial data to
determine how synchrofacts affect the analysis results.
Questions we are going to address are: a) does the presence
of synchrofacts decrease the detectability of neuronal
correlation activity, b) which type of correlation activity
(pairwise or higher-order) is more diluted, and c) which
synchrofact parameters (rate, correlation order,
distribution over neurons, distribution over time) are
mostly affecting the results. In order to do this we compare
the analysis results from data with and without
synchrofacts. This allows us to propose suitable methods of
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month = {Sep},
date = {2020-09-29},
organization = {Bernstein Conference 2020, Berlin
(Germany), 29 Sep 2020 - 1 Oct 2020},
subtyp = {Other},
cin = {INM-6 / IAS-6 / INM-10},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)INM-6-20090406 / I:(DE-Juel1)IAS-6-20130828 /
I:(DE-Juel1)INM-10-20170113},
pnm = {571 - Connectivity and Activity (POF3-571) / SMHB -
Supercomputing and Modelling for the Human Brain
(HGF-SMHB-2013-2017) / DFG project 238707842 - Kausative
Mechanismen mesoskopischer Aktivitätsmuster in der
auditorischen Kategorien-Diskrimination (238707842) / DFG
project 322093511 - Kognitive Leistung als Ergebnis
koordinierter neuronaler Aktivität in unreifen
präfrontal-hippokampalen Netzwerken (322093511) / DFG
project 238707842 - Kausative Mechanismen mesoskopischer
Aktivitätsmuster in der auditorischen
Kategorien-Diskrimination (238707842) / DFG project
237833830 - Optogenetische Analyse der für kognitive
Fähigkeiten zuständigen präfrontal-hippokampalen
Netzwerke in der Entwicklung (237833830) / HBP SGA2 - Human
Brain Project Specific Grant Agreement 2 (785907) / PhD no
Grant - Doktorand ohne besondere Förderung
(PHD-NO-GRANT-20170405)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-571 / G:(DE-Juel1)HGF-SMHB-2013-2017 /
G:(GEPRIS)238707842 / G:(GEPRIS)322093511 /
G:(GEPRIS)238707842 / G:(GEPRIS)237833830 /
G:(EU-Grant)785907 / G:(DE-Juel1)PHD-NO-GRANT-20170405},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)24},
doi = {10.12751/NNCN.BC2020.0095},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/886075},
}