Assess spike precision in locust auditory receptors

Author

Samuel Glauser

Jan Benda

Options

• Stimulus
• freqrange=: Frequency range (string)
• amplitude=4dB: Amplitude of envelope (number)
• intensity=80dB SPL: Stimulus intensity (number)
• intensitybase=SPL: Stimulus intensity relative to (string)
• repeats=10times: Number of stimulus presentations (number)
• duration=500ms: Duration of stimulus (number)
• pause=1000ms: Duration of pause between stimuli (number)
• carrierfreq=5kHz: Carrier frequency (number)
• usebestfreq=true: Use the cell's best frequency (boolean)
• side=left: Speaker (string)
• Waveform
• waveform=sine: Type of amplitude modulation (string)
• dutycycle=50%: Duty-cycle of rectangular waveform (number)
• stimfile=: Stimulus file (string)
• stimampl=0: Amplitude factor (standard deviation) of stimulus file (number)
• relfreqgap=20%: Relative width of frequency gap (number)
• absfreqgap=10Hz: Absolute width of frequency gap (number)
• rescale=true: Rescale filtered noise-gap stimuli (boolean)
• ramp2=0ms: Ramp for rectangles and saw tooths (number)
• ramp=2ms: Ramp at beginning and end of stimulus (number)
• Intensity - search
• userate=true: Search intensity for target firing rate (boolean)
• rate=100Hz: Target firing rate (number)
• ratetol=5Hz: Tolerance for target firing rate (number)
• intensitystep=8dB: Initial intensity step (number)
• searchrepeats=2times: Number of search stimulus presentations (number)
• Analysis
• skipwin=200ms: Initial portion of stimulus not used for analysis (number)
• sigma1=1ms: Standard deviation of rate smoothing kernel 1 (number)
• sigma2=20ms: Standard deviation of rate smoothing kernel 2 (number)
• Save stimuli
• storemode=session: Save stimuli in (string)
• storepath=: Save stimuli in custom directory (string)

Version

1.5 (Jan 10, 2008)