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Duolingo | Learn Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian and English for free. Sound Analysis Pro — Animal Behavior. Sound Analysis Pro has it's own site now: SoundAnalysisPro.com Click here to download Sound Analysis Pro (it's free) Click here to see publications that used SAP Sound Analysis Pro2011 is a software & hardware system designed specifically to manage the acquisition and analysis of animal vocalization.

SA+ eliminates much of the efforts involved in maintaining long-term vocal learning experiments, allowing automated acquisition and analysis of large amounts of sound data, scheduled training and on-line monitoring of behavior of several animals simultaneously. SAP2011 is an open code freeware with several options and extensions that can be implemented.

The data acquisition component continuously monitors sounds and perform online sound analysis to recognize and record sounds of specific category (e.g., birdsongs). The training component performs a fully automated operant-training with song playbacks and provides on-line summary of vocal changes. Feature summary of SAP2011: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Www2.le.ac.uk/departments/engineering/research/bioengineering/neuroengineering-lab/wave-clus-docs/wave-clus-intro.pdf. Game of Thrones. Magic Hexagon for Trig Identities. Spike sorting - Scholarpedia. Figure 1: Extracellular recordings are usually done by inserting microwires in the brain. The signal from the microwire is amplified and band-pass filtered and the firing of the nearby neurons appears as spikes on top of background activity.

Spikes are detected using an amplitude threshold and then sorted according to their shapes. For neurons close to the electrode tip -about 50 to 100 microns (Gerstein and Clark, 1964; Buzsaki, 2004)- the signal-to-noise ratio is good enough to distinguish the activity of each single unit (inner circle). For more distant neurons (outer circle) -up to about 150 microns- spikes can be detected but the difference in their shapes is masked by the noise (multi-unit activity). Spikes from neurons further apart cannot be detected and they contribute to the background noise activity. Spike sorting is the grouping of spikes into clusters based on the similarity of their shapes. Single cell recordings Basic spike sorting methods Figure 2: Window discriminators. MIT 18.06 Linear Algebra Spring 2005.

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