在神经科学研究中,多通道记录方法被普遍应用在对神经元群体活动特性的研究中。通过分析多个神经元的活动,可以了解神经系统协同编码外界信息的规则以及大脑实现各项功能的机制。为了挖掘出多通道神经信号中携带的信息及其潜在的相关性,需要合适的计算方法辅助对神经元放电活动进行解码。本文回顾了多通道神经信号分析中的一些常见方法,以及它们在不同类型神经信号分析要求下的典型应用。
Multi-channel recording is now a widely used tool in neuroscience research that makes it possible to study the activity of neuron population. The data collected from multiple neurons indicate important information of neural coding rules and brain functional mechanism, which requires advanced computational techniques to decode. Here we reviewed the methods for multi-channel neural data analysis and gave brief introduction of their typical application for studying different kinds of neural data.