Multitaper Analysis of Evolutionary Spectra from Multivariate Spiking Observations

arXiv1906.09359MaRDI QIDQ6320875

Anuththara Rupasinghe, Behtash Babadi

Publication date: 21 June 2019

Abstract: Extracting the spectral representations of the neural processes that underlie spiking activity is key to understanding how the brain rhythms mediate cognitive functions. While spectral estimation of continuous time-series is well studied, inferring the spectral representation of latent non-stationary processes based on spiking observations is a challenging problem. In this paper, we address this issue by developing a multitaper spectral estimation methodology that can be directly applied to multivariate spiking observations in order to extract the evolutionary spectral density of the latent non-stationary processes that drive spiking activity, based on point process theory. We establish theoretical bounds on the bias-variance trade-off of the proposed estimator. Finally, we compare the performance of our proposed technique with existing methods using simulation studies and application to real data, which reveal significant gains in terms of the bias-variance trade-off.

Has companion code repository: https://github.com/Anuththara-Rupasinghe/PPMT-ESD-Estimation

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