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The author thanks Conor Houghton and Thomas Kreuz for their very helpful comments on this entry. This work was supported by NIH NEI grant EY09314.

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Victor, J.D. (2014). Spike Train Distance. In: Jaeger, D., Jung, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7320-6_409-1

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