Correlated firings among neurons have been extensively investigated;however,previous studies on retinal ganglion cell(RGC)population activities were mainly based on analyzing the correlated activities between the entire spike trains.In the present study,the correlation properties were explored based on burst-like activities and solitary spikes separately.The results indicate that:(1)burst-like activities were more correlated with other neurons’activities;(2)burst-like spikes correlated with their neighboring neurons represented a smaller receptive field than that of correlated solitary spikes.These results suggest that correlated burst-like spikes should be more efficient in signal transmission,and could encode more detailed spatial information.
