Alessandra Stella

A Quality Measure for Repeating Multiple-Unit Spike Patterns

The paper introduces a quality measure for spatio-temporal spike patterns in multiple-neuron recordings to distinguish meaningful pattern repetitions from chance occurrences.

Pupillometry and Whole-Brain c-Fos Mapping Uncover Multimodal Mirror Mechanisms in Emotional Contagion Networks of Mice

This study uses pupillometry and whole-brain c-Fos mapping to show that emotional contagion in mice involves shared neural activation and multisensory processing.

Model of multiple synfire chains explains cortical spatio-temporal spike patterns

The paper models spatio-temporal spike patterns in monkey motor cortex using synfire chains and finds that overlapping chains with broad spatial distribution can explain the observed patterns.

Comparing surrogates to evaluate precisely timed higher-order spike correlations

This paper compares surrogate data generation methods for detecting significant spatio-temporal spike correlations, finding that uniform dithering leads to false positives and proposing better alternatives.