Practical tools for analysing rhythmic neural activity

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 185, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 151-164

  Heitler, W J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bursting; Data analysis; DataView; Oscillations; Rhythms; Software; Software tools

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMBRYO; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ASTACOIDEA; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; LARVA; LOCOMOTION; MICE; MODELS, ANIMAL; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PERIODICITY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE; SWIMMING;

EID: 70350728657     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2009.09.009     Document Type: Article

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