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CMBHOME: A Package for Neural Data

Bill Chapman ^a, Andrew Bogaard
Boston University, Department of Brain and Psychological Sciences
a: e-mail: wchapman@bu.edu

Introduction:

This documentation for the MATLAB Toolbox, CMBHOME, is meant to be a reference sheet for the standard data structure and its functionatility. For more in depth information about the analysis methods, use the doc function within MATLAB, or view the comment blocks at the top of each .m file included in the Toolbox. Where possible we have also included citations of published work defining the methods for each function.

The overall layout of the Toolbox is:

• +CMBHOME
  • @Session: Includes time varying behavioral (video) data.
  • @Spike: Includes timestamps for single-unit activity
  • @LFP: Incledes time-varying Local Field Potential data.

Throughout this tutorial we call the main CMBHOME Session object "root", however this variable name can be whatever you desire in your implementation. Fields and methods are referenced as root.fieldName or root.method.

For the most basic end-user applications, only Session objects will be referenced directly. More advanced users or those implementing new analyses may however reference Spike and LFP.