STRFPAK (a spatio-temporal receptive field estimation software)
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Version 4.1.2 - August, 2006
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Description
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STRFPAK is a Matlab toolbox for estimating the linear and nonlinear 
(future versions) stimulus-response transfer function of a sensory neuron.
The resulting spatio-temporal receptive field (STRF) provides a quantitative 
description of neural filtering properties that can be used in subsequent 
computational modeling studies. The estimation techniques implemented by 
STRFPAK are quite general. Several algorithms are provided for estimating 
both linear and nonlinear STRFs from responses to either simple or complex 
stimuli, including natural signals.

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Installation
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1. Unzip STRFPAK-4.1.2 and put all the .m files in the same directory
The unzip methods depends on the platform you are using. See detail
on STRFPAK User's manual.

How to use STRF package
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1. Start to run Matlab first.

2. On the MATLAB command prompt line, type:
   >> strfpak

3. Follow the flow on the main window of STRFPAK to get input data,
   estimate the kernel, predict PSTH using estimated kernel and 
   validate the goodness of fit.

4. All the intermediate results are saved under the directory you
   specified when you click "Calculate" button on the main window.

5. If you have done all the calculation, you want to display them
   from the main window. You need first specify the global variable
   "outputPath" at the matlab command line:
>> global outputPath
>> outputPath = '/home/junli/STRFPAK/Vision_Output';

 
Main intermediate output file list
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Stim_autocorr.mat               : stimuli autocorrelation matrix
StimResp_crosscorr.mat          : stimuli-response crosscorrelation vector
SR_crosscorrJN.mat              : Jackknifed version crosscorrelation
strfResult.mat                  : estimated STRF results
predResult-EstSpike_Tolx.mat    : predicted psth for tolrence value x 
predResult-avgSpike_Tolx.mat    : original psth used for prediciton at tol1 
info_r_result.mat               : validation results

Main files list
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1. Calculation Functions:
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cal_AVG.m      : Calculate average of stimuli that used for removing noise
cal_AutoCorr.m : Calculate autocorrelation of stimuli
cal_AutoCorrSep.m  : Calculate autocorrelation of stimuli using space-temp 
                     separable algorithm
cal_CrossCorr.m    : Calculate crosscorrelation of stimuli and response
cal_Strf.m         : Calculate strf 
cal_StrfSep.m      : Calculate strf using separable algorithm 
calStrf_script.m   : Calcualte strf and normalization
calStrfSep_script.m: Calcualte strf and normalization using separable alg.
cal_PredStrf.m     : Predict psth using estimated STRF and new dataset
cal_Validate.m     : Validate its prediction

2. Display Functions:
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displayxxxxx.x    : Display routines for xxxxx

3. Helper Functions:
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rest

Questions and Comments
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Please contact Patrick Gill for your questions and comments.
E-Mail:   [email protected] 
WWW:      http://strfpak.berkeley.edu