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Three parameters are essential for representing multiple-neuron activity. These are the location in the brain (\({\vec r}\)), the time of occurrence (t), and the value of the activity (\({\vec e}\)). This last parameter can be an electric, magnetic, or optic quantity, representative of dipole moment, dipole strength, neural firing rate, type of neural unit, size of evoked potential, magnetic field, or optical activity. In principle therefore a representation requires a map of \({\vec e}\) onto a four-dimensional space-time continuum. This is not easy to represent in the sense that one cannot visualize such a representation in its totality. The solution then is generally to reduce the dimensionality of the individual representations and to show a sequence of lower dimensional projections or cross-sections.
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Eggermont, J.J. (1990). Representation and Detection of Correlated Neural Activity. In: The Correlative Brain. Studies of Brain Function, vol 16. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-51033-5_8
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