Possible questions of interest:
  • What are the limits of multi-unit recording? How fast are these limits changing?
  • Is there a best way to sort spikes? Or rather is it application dependent, and if so what are the parameters of these applications? Is there a best method to detect structure in multiple unit recording? More generally, is there a common set of problems faced by all researchers who do multi-unit recording?
  • Do we know what and how computations are performed by nervous systems with relatively few neurons? What can spike data from every neuron tell us?
  • What are the goals of multi-unit recording? Do we want spike data from every neuron in a cortical column? What are the best model systems for getting this data?