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Table 2.

Effect of background noise distribution estimate on significance measure for three example datasets of Fig. 4. Gray boxes indicate values below threshold, at which the response was deemed significant.

Pat	Peak	Latency (ms)	Maximum prestimulus (p, b)	Average zero mean (p, b)	Pooled random average (p, b)
5011	1	154	(0.010, 0.196)	(0.006, 0.036)	(0.002, 0.084)
	2	268	(0.005, 0.020)	(0.004, 0.020)	(0.005, 0.023)
	3	379	(0.005, 0.010)	(0.001, 0.009)	(0.005, 0.010)
5015	1	299	(0.077, 0.679)	(0.008, 0.287)	(0.010, 0.246)
	2	572	(0.108, 0.871)	(0.010, 0.300)	(0.018, 0.282)
	3	786	(0.034, 0.551)	(0.002, 0.029)	(0.005, 0.082)
5017	1	221	(0.425, 1.000)	(0.009, 0.261)	(0.025, 0.354)
	2	363	(0.172, 0.941)	(0.003, 0.078)	(0.004, 0.101)
	3	505	(0.238, 0.980)	(0.006, 0.088)	(0.006, 0.130)