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BaselineActivity  [RePro]  [E-Fish Plugins] ISI statistics and EOD locking of baseline activity. Author Jan Benda Version 2.2 (Oct 23, 2014) Todo: Put beat detector auto settings into beat detector. Options duration (number, ms): Duration of single sweep. repeats (integer): Maximum number of sweeps (repeats=0: infinite). isimax (number, ms): Maximum ISI length displayed in the ISIH plot. isistep (number, ms): Resolution of the ISI histogram. ratedt (number, ms): Resolution of the firing rate. ratemax (number, ms): Maximum time for measuring firing frequency for each EOD cycle. eodduration (number, ms): Duration of EOD stored into file. saveeodtimes (boolean): Save EOD times in a file. auto (integer): 1) Adjust detector parameter automatically, 2) + reset beat and chirp detector. adjust (boolean): Adjust input gains. Files PUnitSearch writes some information about baseline activity if repeats>0. basespikes#.dat : the spiketrain of trace #. baseisih#.dat : the interspike-interval histogram of trace #. baserate#.dat : the cyclic firing rate for a single EOD period of trace #. basenerveampl.dat : the nerve potential. basenervesmoothampl.dat : the smoothed nerve potential. baseeodtrace.dat : eodduration ms of the EOD. baseeodtimes.dat : times of the eod peaks, saved only if saveeodtimes is true. Plots ISI Histogram: The interspike-interval histogram. The vertical lines are multiple of the EOD period. EOD Firing Rate: Spikes (red) and cyclic firing rate (yellow) in comparision with one EOD period (green). Requirements Transdermal EOD recording (EODTrace2) and events (EODEvents2). One or more spike events (SpikeEvents[*]) or nerve recordings (NerveTrace1). Chirps  [RePro]  [E-Fish Plugins] Measures responses to chirps. Author Jan Benda Version 2.0 (Nov 11, 2014) Todo: Make independent of beat detector Screenshot Options nchirps (integer): Number of chirps per stimulus. minspace (number, ms): Minimum time between chirps (AM only). firstspace (number, ms): Time preceeding first chirp (AM only). pause (number, ms): Pause between successive stimuli. deltaf (number, Hz): Beat frequency. contrast (number, %): Contrast (AM amplitude / EOD amplitude) chirpsize (number, Hz): Size of the chirp. chirpwidth (number, ms): Width of the chirp. chirpkurtosis (number): Kurtosis of Gaussian chirp (>1 broader, <1 narrower). chirpampl (number, %): Reduction of EOD amplitude during a chirp. repeats (integer): Number of stimulus repetitions (0: infinite). beatpos (integer): Number of beat positions used for analysis. ratedt (number, ms): Resolution of firing rate. am (boolean): AM stimulus or direct stimulus. sinewave (boolean): If direct stimulus: use sine wave or the fishes EOD. playback (boolean): Record transdermal amplitude evoked by direct stimulus and replay it as an AM stimulus. Files chirps.dat : General information for each chirp in each stimulus. chirptraces.dat : Frequency and amplitude of the transdermal EOD for each chirp. chirpspikes#.dat : The spikes elicited by each chirp of trace #. chirpallspikes#.dat : The spikes elicited by each stimulus of trace #. chirpnerveampl.dat : The nerve potential elicited by each chirp. chirpnervesmoothampl.dat : The smoothed nerve potential elicited by each chirp. chirpallnerveampl.dat : The nerve potential elicited by each stimulus. chirpallnervesmoothampl.dat : The smoothed nerve potential elicited by each stimulus. chirpeodampl.dat : Amplitude of the transdermal EOD for each stimulus. chirprate.dat : The firing rate for each chirp position. Plots Rate: Spikes (direct stimulus: red, AM: magenta) and firing rate (direct stimulus: yellow, AM: orange) for each chirp position. Beat: Amplitude of transdermal EOD for each chirp position (darkgreen). Last stimulus green. Requirements Optional: EOD events (EODEvents1). Recommended if direct stimulation is used. Transdermal EOD recording (EODTrace2) and events (EODEvents2). Recording of the stimulus events (SignalEvents1) if direct stimuli are used. One or more spike events (SpikeEvents[*]) or nerve recordings (NerveTrace1). FICurve  [RePro]  [E-Fish Plugins] Measures f-I curves of electrosensory neurons. Author Jan Benda Version 1.6 (Nov 19, 2010) Options duration (number, ms): Duration of stimulus. preduration (number, ms): Duration of preadapting stimulus. pause (number, ms): Pause between successive stimuli. delay (number, ms): Part of pause before stimulus. maxintfac (number): Maximum intensity factor. minintfac (number): Minimum intensity factor. nints (integer): Number of stimulus intensities. maxpreintfac (number): Maximum intensity of preadapting stimulus. minpreintfac (number): Minimum intensity of preadapting stimulus. npreints (integer): Number of preadapting intensities. repeats (integer): Number of repetitions. blockrepeats (integer): Number of repetitions of an intensity sequence. singlerepeats (integer): Number of immediate repetitions of each intensity. medres (integer): Medium resolution. nskip (integer): NSkip. minrateslope (number, Hz/mV/cm): Minimum slope of f-I curve. Files fispikes#.dat : the spikes of trace #. firate.dat : the firing rate. ficurve#.dat : Summary of f-I curve data of trace #. Plots f-I curve : baseline activity (blue), prestimulus rate (orange), onset rate (green), steady state (red) firing rate : spikes (red), firing frequency (yellow), stimuli onsets (white) Requirements Transdermal EOD recording (EODTrace2) and events (EODEvents2). One or more spike events (SpikeEvents[*]). FileStimulus  [RePro]  [E-Fish Plugins] Load a stimulus from a text file. Author Jan Benda Version 1.3 (Mar 25, 2010) Options filepath (string): The directory of the stimulus file. filename (string): The stimulus file. sigstdev (number): The standard deviation of the stimulus. pause (number, ms): Pause between successive stimuli. contrast (number, %): Contrast for one standard deviation of the stimulus. repeats (integer): Number of stimulus repetitions (0: infinite). binwidth (number, ms): Width of the bins used for estimating the firing rate. before (number, ms): Spikes recorded before stimulus. after (number, ms): Spikes recorded after stimulus. splitfiles (boolean ): Each stimulus in extra file. joinspikes (boolean ): Add spike trains to stimulus amplitude file. Files stimspikes#.dat : the spikes elicited by each stimulus of trace #. stimnerveampl.dat : the nerve potential elicited b each stimulus. stimampl.dat : each stimulus trial. stimrate.dat : the firing rate for each stimulus. Plots Firing Rate: Spikes (red) and firing rate (yellow). Stimulus: The stimuli (darkgreen, the most recent one green). Requirements Transdermal EOD recording (EODTrace2) and events (EODEvents2). One or more spike events (SpikeEvents[*]) or nerve recordings (NerveTrace1). *  [RePro]  [E-Fish Plugins] PUnitModel  [RePro]  [E-Fish Plugins] A model for P-units of weakly-electric fish. Author Jan Benda Version 2.0 (Oct 30, 2013) Options General EOD eodtype=Sine: EOD type (string) eodfreq=800Hz: Frequency (number) eodfreqsd=10Hz: SD of frequency (number) eodfreqtau=1000s: Timescale of frequency (number) eodlocalamplitude=1mV/cm: Amplitude for local electrode (number) eodglobalamplitude=1mV/cm: Amplitude for global electrode (number) localstimulusgain=1: Gain for additive stimulus component to local electrode (number) globalstimulusgain=0: Gain for additive stimulus component to global electrode (number) stimulusgain=1: Gain for stimulus recording channel (number) Spikes voltagescale=1: Scale factor for membrane potential (number) Spike generator spikemodel=Stimulus: Spike model (string) noised=0: Intensity of current noise (number) deltat=0.005ms: Delta t (number) integrator=Euler: Method of integration (string) Voltage-gated current 1 - activation only gmc=0: Conductivity (number) emc=-90mV: Reversal potential (number) mvmc=-40mV: Midpoint potential of activation (number) mwmc=10mV: Width of activation (number) taumc=10ms: Time constant (number) Voltage-gated current 2 - activation and inactivation gmhc=0: Conductivity (number) emhc=-90mV: Reversal potential (number) mvmhc=-40mV: Midpoint potential of activation (number) mwmhc=10mV: Width of activation (number) taummhc=10ms: Time constant of activation (number) pmmhc=1: Power of activation gate (number) hvmhc=-40mV: Midpoint potential of inactivation (number) hwmhc=10mV: Width of inactivation (number) tauhmhc=10ms: Time constant of inactivation (number) pmhhc=1: Power of inactivation gate (number) ReceptiveField  [RePro]  [E-Fish Plugins] Locates the receptive field of a p-unit electrosensory afferent using the mirob roboter. Author Jan Grewe Version 1.0 (Dec 12, 2017) SAM  [RePro]  [E-Fish Plugins] Measures responses to sinusoidal amplitude modulations. Author Jan Benda Version 2.5 (Sep 28, 2017) Options Options Stimulus duration=1000ms: Duration of signal (number) pause=1000ms: Pause between signals (number) freqsel=relative to EOD: Stimulus frequency is (string) deltaf=5Hz: Delta f (beat frequency) (number) contrast=20%: Contrast (number) repeats=6: Repeats (integer) am=true: Amplitude modulation (boolean) sinewave=true: Use sine wave (boolean) ampl=0.0: Relative amplitude of harmonics (string) phase=0.0: Phase of harmonics (string) contrastsel=fundamental: Contrast is (string) Analysis skip=0.5Periods: Skip (number) ratebins=10: Number of bins for firing rate (integer) before=0ms: Spikes recorded before stimulus (number) after=0ms: Spikes recorded after stimulus (number) adjust=true: Adjust input gain? (boolean) Harmonics can be defined by ampl and phase. Enter the relative amplitude and the corresponding phase of each harmonic as comma separated values. Files samspikes#.dat : the spikes elicited by each SAM period of trace #. samallspikes#.dat : the spikes elicited by each SAM stimulus of trace #. samnerveampl.dat : the nerve potential elicited by each SAM period. samnervesmoothampl.dat : the smoothed nerve potential elicited by each SAM period. samallnerveampl.dat : the nerve potential elicited by each SAM stimulus. samallnervesmoothampl.dat : the smoothed nerve potential elicited by each SAM stimulus. samampl.dat : the SAM amplitudes for each SAM period. samallampl.dat : the SAM amplitude for each stimulus. samrate#.dat : the cyclic firing rate for a single SAM period of trace #. Plots Firing Rate: Spikes (red) and cyclic firing rate (yellow) for each SAM cycle. SAM: Each period of the SAM stimulus (darkgreen). Last period green. Requirements Transdermal EOD recording (EODTrace2) and events (EODEvents2). Recording of the stimulus events (SignalEvents1) if non AM stimuli are used. One or more spike events (SpikeEvents[*]) or nerve recordings (NerveTrace1). Session  [RePro]  [E-Fish Plugins] Session for recording EODs of weakly electric fish. Author Jan Benda Version 1.1 (Jan 19, 2013) Options ephys=true: Electrophysiological recording (boolean) Plots The amplitude (red) and the frequency (green) of the global EOD measurement.

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