Topic: multi-neuron spiking patterns

The current dogma in neuroscience is that neurons primarily convey stimulus information through their firing rate. However, recent studies suggest a remarkable speed of sensory processing which may be incompatible with traditional rate-coding schemes, and it has been hypothesized that sensory encoding may rely on the spike timing relationships among neurons (Thorpe et al., 2001 and Resulaj et al., 2018). To study multi-neuron spiking patterns, we developed SpikeShip, an unsupervised, linear, geometry-based dissimilarity measure that aligns spikes across pairs of epochs based on optimal transpo