17 lines
585 B
Matlab
17 lines
585 B
Matlab
function [time, rate] = binned_rate(spike_times, bin_width, dt, t_max)
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% Calculates the firing rate with the binning method. The hist funciton is
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% used to count the number of spikes in each bin.
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% Function takes the spike times, the width of the bins in seconds as well
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% as the temporal resolution and the tiral duration.
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%
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% Returns two vectors containing the time and the rate.
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time = 0:dt:t_max-dt;
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bins = 0:bin_width:t_max;
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rate = zeros(size(time));
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h = hist(spike_times, bins) ./bin_width;
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for i = 2:length(bins)
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rate(round(bins(i-1)/dt)+1:round(bins(i)/dt)) = h(i);
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end
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