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\pagestyle{headandfoot} \header{{\bfseries\large Exercise
}}{{\bfseries\large Time-dependent firing rate}}{{\bfseries\large December, 12, 2017}}
\firstpagefooter{Dr. Jan Grewe}{Phone: 29 74588}{Email:
jan.grewe@uni-tuebingen.de} \runningfooter{}{\thepage}{}
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\begin{document}
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\begin{center}
\textbf{\Large Introduction to scientific computing.}\\[1ex]
{\large Jan Grewe, Jan Benda}\\[-3ex]
Abteilung Neuroethologie \hfill --- \hfill Institut f\"ur Neurobiologie \hfill --- \hfill \includegraphics[width=0.28\textwidth]{UT_WBMW_Black_RGB} \\
\end{center}
\begin{questions}
\question Plot the time-dependent firing rate of a neuron. Calculate
the firing rate from the instantaneous firing rate (based on the
interspike interval). Use the \code{lifoustim.mat}. The dataset
contains three variables. 1st the spike times in different trials,
2nd the stimulus, and 3rd the temporal resolution. The total
duration of each trial amounts to 30 seconds.
\begin{parts}
\part{} Write a function that takes three arguments: the spike
times of a single trial, the trial duration and the temporal
resolution. The function should return the time values and the
firing rate in $Hz$.
\part{} Write a script that applies the above function to estimate
the firing rate of each trial. Plot a single individual responses
and the average response as a function of time into the same plot.
\part{} Extend your program that it saves the figure in a format
according to the rules given by the \textit{Journal of
Neuroscience}. This relates to the figure size and the
fontsizes.
\part{} Store the figure in pdf format.
\end{parts}
\question{} As before but use the binning method.
\question{} Extend your script that it also plots the interspike
interval histogram and the distribution of spike counts into
separate figures. Save the figures to file using the pdf format.
\question{} Some trials are different from the others.
\begin{parts}
\part{} Use the rasterplot to identify them. In which sense
are they different from the others? Save the rasterplot in pdf
format.
\part{} Identify those trial in which the total spike count
deviates more than $2\sigma$ from the average.
\end{parts}
\end{questions}
\end{document}