LightDisco/README.md

LightDisco

Raw data for a few pilot experiments with the light disco. Reproduces Fig. 6.5 and Fig. 6.7 from my thesis; available online as: http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-1735-0000-002E-E348-B

Steps to take

1. Unpack the .zip file md5 hash: fe00b1f3972fe1426a41673096f3f553 to a directory ./Lightdisco_raw/
2. Run the python script runme.py
3. Figures are automatically generated in the folder ./img/

Software requirements

Tested with Python 3.5.6 / IPython 6.5.0 in Anaconda on MacOS 10.14.6. Libraries: numpy 1.14.2; scipy 1.2.1; matplotlib 3.0.3; seaborn 0.9.0.

Further content

A not analyzed longitudinal recording is contained in experiments [19, 20, 23, 26, 27, 28]. This is a bursty culture (19), put on the disco after 2 weeks without input, and then transitioned (20, 23) into a irregular one (26, 27, 28).

Also, only for completeness, the folder /raw_code/ contains:

1. The script that was used to extract and sort spikes from the raw .mcd files.
2. A script to plot the spiketrain of a single experiment [used for Fig. 6.3].