Discriminability measures and time-frequency features: An application to vibrissal tactile discrimination

被引:5
作者
Piza, Alvaro G. [1 ,2 ,3 ]
Farfan, Fernando D. [1 ,2 ,3 ]
Albarracin, Ana L. [1 ,2 ,3 ]
Ruiz, Gabriel A. [3 ]
Felice, Carmelo J. [1 ,2 ,3 ]
机构
[1] CONICET UNT, Inst Super Invest Biol INSIBIO, RA-4000 San Miguel De Tucuman, Tucuman, Argentina
[2] Fac Ciencias Exactas & Tecnol, Dept Bioingn, RA-4000 San Miguel De Tucuman, Tucuman, Argentina
[3] Univ Nacl Tucuman, Lab Medios & Interfases LAMEIN, RA-4000 San Miguel De Tucuman, Tucuman, Argentina
关键词
Information theory; Discriminability; Spectrogram; Texture discrimination; Afferent activity; Vibrissae; INFORMATION-TRANSMISSION; SPIKE TRAIN; RELIABILITY; SIGNALS; NEURON;
D O I
10.1016/j.jneumeth.2014.06.007
中图分类号
Q5 [生物化学];
学科分类号
071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
Background: Often, the first problem that the neuroscientist must face is to determine if a specific stimulus set applied to biological system produces specific, precise and well differentiated responses. New method: In the present study we have proposed four discriminability measures to evaluate the feasibility of differentiating experimental conditions: information measures based on information theory, percentage overlap based on Linacre method, Bhattacharyya distance and univariate standard distance. All discriminability measures were evaluated on experimental protocols related to vibrissal tactile discrimination. Results: Time-frequency features were extracted from afferent discharges and then, pairwise comparisons were realized by using the proposed discriminability measures. Our results reveal the existence of time-frequency patterns which allows differentiating of sweep conditions from multifiber recordings. Comparison with existing methods: Currently, statistical methods used to justify significant differences in experimental conditions have rigorous criteria that must be met for correct validation of results. Discriminability measures proposed here are robust and can be adjusted to different experimental conditions (time series, repeated measures, specific variables and other). Conclusions: Discriminability measures allowed determining the time intervals where two sweep situations have the highest probability to be differentiated from each other. High discriminability percentages were observed into protraction phase, although to a lesser degree, it was also observed in retraction phase. It was demonstrated that sensibility of discriminability measures are different. This revealing a greater ability to highlight percentage changes of pairwise comparisons. Finally, the methods here proposed can be adapted to other features of biological responses. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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页码:78 / 88
页数:11
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