Estimating membrane voltage correlations from extracellular spike trains.

@article{Dorn2003EstimatingMV,
  title={Estimating membrane voltage correlations from extracellular spike trains.},
  author={Jessy D. Dorn and Dario L. Ringach},
  journal={Journal of neurophysiology},
  year={2003},
  volume={89 4},
  pages={
          2271-8
        }
}
The cross-correlation coefficient between neural spike trains is a commonly used tool in the study of neural interactions. Two well-known complications that arise in its interpretation are 1) modulations in the correlation coefficient may result solely from changes in the mean firing rate of the cells and 2) the mean firing rates of the neurons impose upper and lower bounds on the correlation coefficient whose absolute values differ by an order of magnitude or more. Here, we propose a model… 
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