A program for analysing single neuron activity by methods based on estimation of a change-point.
A program for analysing the sequences of discharge of a single neuron is presented. This program performs the following tasks: it tests if there is a neuronal response after a stimulus, it estimates the response latency and, in the case of an experiment with a conditioned movement, it estimates the onset of the movement and gives indications about the functional role of the neuron by analysing the variances of the stimulus-response and response-movement times. The methods used have been developed by the authors and are based on the estimation of a change point. The basic methods are published elsewhere but some novelties are presented here, in particular a robust estimator of a variance ratio.
D000200:Action Potentials; D000818:Animals; D003198:Computer Simulation; D004594:Electrophysiology; D007837:Latency Period, Psychological; D008959:Models, Neurological; D009068:Movement; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D012984:Software