added README to the projects

projects/README

@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+project_adaptation_fit
+OK 
+
+project_eod
+Needs to be checked!
+
+project_eyetracker
+OK
+
+project_fano_slope
+OK
+
+project_fano_test
+OK
+
+project_fano_time
+OK
+
+project_ficurves
+OK
+
+project_input_resistance
+What is the problem with this project?
+
+project_isicorrelations
+Need to program a solution!
+
+project_isipdffit
+Too technical
+
+project_lif
+OK
+
+project_mutualinfo
+OK
+
+project_noiseficurves
+OK
+
+project_numbers
+We might add some more involved statistical analysis
+
+project_pca_natural_images
+Needs PCA...
+
+project_photoreceptor
+OK - text needs to be improved
+Maybe also add how responses are influenced by unstable resting potential
+Maybe more cells...
+
+project_populationvector
+OK
+
+project_qvalues
+Interesting! But needs solution.
+
+project_random_walk
+Improve it! Provide code exmaples for plotting world and making movies
+
+project_serialcorrelation
+OK
+
+project_spectra
+Needs improvements and a solution
+
+project_stimulus_reconstruction
+OK Fix equation?
+
+project_vector_strength
+OK Maybe add something for explainiong the vector strength (average unit vector).

projects/header.tex

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 %%%%% layout %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
 \usepackage[left=20mm,right=20mm,top=25mm,bottom=25mm]{geometry}
 \pagestyle{headandfoot}
-\header{\textbf{\large Scientific Computing Project: \ptitle}}{}{\textbf{\large January 18th, 2018}}
+\header{\textbf{\large Scientific Computing Project:}}{}{\textbf{\large  \ptitle}}
 \runningfooter{}{\thepage}{}
 
 \setlength{\baselineskip}{15pt}

projects/project_fano_slope/fano_slope.tex

@@ -36,7 +36,6 @@
   stimulus could happen to be lower than the number of spikes evoked
   by the smaller stimulus.
 
-
   The central questions of this project are:
   \begin{itemize}
   \item How can an upstream neuron discriminate two stimuli based
@@ -45,7 +44,7 @@
   \end{itemize}
 
   The neuron is implemented in the file \texttt{lifboltzmannspikes.m}.
-  Call it with the following parameters:
+  Call it with the following parameters:\vspace{-5ex}
   \begin{lstlisting}
 trials = 10;
 tmax = 50.0;
@@ -76,9 +75,7 @@ spikes = lifboltzmanspikes(trials, input, tmax, gain);
 
     Plot the tuning curve for four different neurons that differ in
     their \texttt{gain} property. Use 0.1, 0.2, 0.5 and 1 as values
-    for the \texttt{gain} parameter.
+    for the \texttt{gain} parameter. Why is this parameter called 'gain'?
-
-    Why is this parameter called 'gain'?
 
     \part Show two raster plots for the responses to two different
     stimuli with $I_1=10$ and $I_2=11$. Set the gain of the neuron to
@@ -102,7 +99,7 @@ spikes = lifboltzmanspikes(trials, input, tmax, gain);
     that quantifies how well the two stimuli can be distinguished
     based on the spike counts. Plot the dependence of this measure as
     a function of the gain of the neuron.
-
+%
     For which gains can the two stimuli perfectly discriminated?
 
     \underline{Hint:} A possible readout is to set a threshold

projects/project_fano_test/fano_test.tex

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
     \part Plot the spike counts of both neurons appropriately.
     \part Use {\em Eden, U. T., \& Kramer, M. (2010). Drawing
       inferences from Fano factor calculations. Journal of
-      neuroscience methods, 190(1), 149--152} to construct a test that
+      Neuroscience Methods, 190(1), 149--152} to construct a test that
     uses the Fano factor as test statistic and tests against the Null
     hypothesis that the spike counts come from a Poisson process.
     \part Implement the test and use it on the data above.

projects/project_lif/lif.tex

@@ -115,7 +115,8 @@ time = [0.0:dt:tmax]; % t_i
       r = \frac{n-1}{t_n - t_1}
     \end{equation}
     What do you observe? Does the firing rate encode the frequency of
-    the stimulus?
+    the stimulus? Look at the spike trains in response the sine waves
+    to figure out what is going on.
   \end{parts}
 
 \end{questions}