Incorporating naturalistic correlation structure improves spectrogram reconstruction from neuronal activity in the songbird auditory midbrain

• Published in: The Journal of neuroscience Vol. 31; no. 10; pp. 3828 - 3842
• Main Authors: Ramirez, Alexandro D, Ahmadian, Yashar, Schumacher, Joseph, Schneider, David, Woolley, Sarah M N, Paninski, Liam
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Society for Neuroscience 09.03.2011
• Subjects: Acoustic Stimulation; Action Potentials - physiology; Animals; Electrophysiology; Finches; Mesencephalon - physiology; Neurons - physiology; Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; Sound Spectrography - methods; Vocalization, Animal - physiology

Birdsong is comprised of rich spectral and temporal organization, which might be used for vocal perception. To quantify how this structure could be used, we have reconstructed birdsong spectrograms by combining the spike trains of zebra finch auditory midbrain neurons with information about the corr...