High-density microelectrode array recordings and real-time spike sorting for closed-loop experiments: An emerging technology to study neural plasticity

Frontiers in Neural Circuits

Volumn , Issue DEC, 2012, Pages

  Franke, Felix ^a   Jäckel, David ^a   Dragas, Jelena ^a   Müller, Jan ^a   Radivojevic, Milos ^a   Bakkum, Douglas ^a   Hierlemann, Andreas ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL SELECTION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FILTER; HIGH DENSITY MICROELECTRODE ARRAY; IN VITRO STUDY; LINEAR SYSTEM; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MICROELECTRODE; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROMODULATION; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRESYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPIKE;

EID: 84871301654     PISSN: 16625110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncir.2012.00105     Document Type: Review

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