Sparse spectral estimation from point process observations

We consider the problem of estimating the power spectral density of the neural covariates underlying the spiking of a neuronal population. We assume the spiking of the neuronal ensemble to be described by Bernoulli statistics. Furthermore, we consider the conditional intensity function to be the log...

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Main Authors: Miran, Sina (Author), Purdon, Patrick L. (Author), Babadi, Behtash (Author), Brown, Emery Neal (Contributor)
Other Authors: Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2017-11-01T18:04:08Z.
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Summary:We consider the problem of estimating the power spectral density of the neural covariates underlying the spiking of a neuronal population. We assume the spiking of the neuronal ensemble to be described by Bernoulli statistics. Furthermore, we consider the conditional intensity function to be the logistic map of a second-order stationary process with sparse frequency content. Using the binary spiking data recorded from the population, we calculate the maximum a posteriori estimate of the power spectral density of the process while enforcing sparsity-promoting priors on the estimate. Using both simulated and clinically recorded data, we show that our method outperforms the existing methods for extracting a frequency domain representation from the spiking data of a neuronal population.