The NeuroScope Handbook

Lynn Hazan

Michaël Zugaro

Revision 1.3.3 (13/09/2007)

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NeuroScope is a viewer for displaying various physiological and behavioral data. It allows comparison of analyzed data with the original recordings.

NeuroScope was developped by Lynn Hazan in G. Buzsáki's lab (CMBN, Rutgers Newark, USA). If you use NeuroScope for your analyses, please be kind enough to cite the following article in your publications:

L. Hazan, M. Zugaro, G. Buzsáki (2006). Klusters, NeuroScope, NDManager: a Free Software Suite for Neurophysiological Data Processing and Visualization, J. Neurosci. Methods 155:207-216.


Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Using NeuroScope
Starting a New Session
Palettes
Anatomical Groups and Spike Groups
Units
Events
Editing Channel Groups
Creating a New Group
Discarding Bad Channels
Skipping Channels
Moving Channels between Groups
Reordering Channels within a Group
Reordering Groups
Synchronizing Anatomical and Spike Groups
Removing Channels from a Spike Group
Managing the Display
Selecting Channels
Channel Colors
Showing and Hiding Channels
Adjusting Amplitudes and Offsets
Advanced Display Management
Multiple Column Mode
Labels and Calibration Bars
View Mode and Edit Mode
Using Multiple Displays
Browsing Local Field Potentials
Tools
Zoom
Draw Time Line
Select Channels
Measure
Select Time
Select Event
Add Event
Unit Activity
Displaying Unit Activity
Browsing Unit Activity
Events
Displaying Events
Browsing Events
Editing Events
Positions
File Properties
Printing and Exporting
Printing
Exporting
Session Management
3. Settings
4. File Formats
Data Files
The data File
The Cluster File
The Spike Time File
The Event File
The Positon File
The Parameter File
The Session File
5. Menu Entries
The File Menu
The Edit Menu
The Tools Menu
The Channels Menu
The Units Menu
The Events Menu
The Positions Menu
The Traces Menu
The Displays Menu
The Settings Menu
The Help Menu
6. Credits and License
A. Installation
How to obtain Neuroscope
Requirements
Compilation and Installation