Table 1.

Summary of various closed-loop stimulus optimization approaches utilized in sensory systems neuroscience.

Optimization goal	Equation	Example references
Firing rate optimization	1	Nelken et al. (1994); O’Connor et al. (2005), Yamane et al. (2008); Koelling and Nykamp (2012)
Iso-response surfaces	4	Gollisch et al. (2002); Bölinger and Gollisch (2012), Horwitz and Hass (2012)
Maximally informative stimulus ensembles	5	Machens (2002); Machens et al. (2005)
On-line model estimation	6	Lewi et al. (2009),2011, DiMattina and Zhang (2011)
On-line model comparison	7	Cavagnaro et al. (2010); DiMattina and Zhang (2011)