Abstract
A main goal of the behavioral neuroscientist is to demonstrate the existence of meaningful relationships between neural activity and the behavior of an organism. In pursuit of this goal researchers typically make multiple and single-unit neural recordings from an aggregation of neurons, while the subject of the recordings learns or performs some task. Peri-stimulus time histograms of discriminated action potentials are then compared to time lines of task-related events, including stimulus presentation, delays, and response initiation. Significant neural-behavioral relationships are apparent in timelocking between task-related events and increased neural firing.