NAss - Finding Neurons Participating in Assemblies

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Description

NAss is a program to analyze parallel neuronal spike trains for assembly activity with the help of different statistics. A p-value is obtained by creating surrogate data, either by trial shuffling, spike time randomization, or activity corrected spike time randomization. The program expects the input file to be in a simple two column format, with the first column holding the neuron id (> 1) or a trial start or end marker (0: start, -1: end) and the second column stating the spike time.

Call the program with no arguments to see a list of options.

NAss has been superseded by the NAPa program.

If you have trouble executing the program on Microsoft Windows, check whether you have the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2022 (see under "Other Tools and Frameworks") installed, as the program was compiled with Microsoft Visual Studio 2022.

Details about the application, the statistics, and the methods used for generating surrogate data can be found in these papers:

• Identification of Neurons Participating in Cell Assemblies
  Sonja Grün, Denise Berger, and Christian Borgelt
  Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 3493-3496
  IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, USA 2009
  doi:10.1109/ICASSP.2009.4960378 ieeexplore.ieee.org
  icassp_09.pdf (202 kb) icassp_09.ps.gz (134 kb) (4 pages)
• Efficient Identification of Assembly Neurons within Massively Parallel Spike Trains
  Denise Berger, Christian Borgelt, Sebastien Louis, Abigail Morrison, and Sonja Grün
  Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience, 2010, Article ID 439648
  Hindawi Publishing Corporation, New York, NY, USA 2009/2010
  doi:10.1155/2010/439648 www.hindawi.com
  jcin_09.pdf (5580 kb) jcin_09.ps.gz (4686 kb) (16 pages)