The Physiologist's Friend Simulation API

The Physiologist's Friend simulation.

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Packages
ch.unizh.ini.friend The top level package.
ch.unizh.ini.friend.browser The classes in this package enable browsing to a web page.
ch.unizh.ini.friend.graphics Graphics objects and interfaces.
ch.unizh.ini.friend.gui GUI objects, including the main GUI, the tangent screen, and the dialogs.
ch.unizh.ini.friend.record Spike recording using the microphone input with SpikeReporter and SpikeEvent generation from these spikes.
ch.unizh.ini.friend.simulation Code that simulates the cells.
ch.unizh.ini.friend.simulation.cells This package contains specific cell types, which are subclasses of AbstractCell.
ch.unizh.ini.friend.simulation.filter Filters used in the simulation.
ch.unizh.ini.friend.simulation.synapses This package contains specific synapse types, which are subclasses of AbstractSynapse.
ch.unizh.ini.friend.stimulus The stimuli.
ch.unizh.ini.friend.tests Miscellaneous test classes.
ch.unizh.ini.friend.topology Classes that help assign a topology to the cells.

 

The Physiologist's Friend simulation. This program simulates a small patch of the retina and a few cortical cells. It lets you hear and see the responses of cells as you stimulate them on a virtual tangent screen, in much the same way as physiologists do when they do experiments on live animals. As you move the stimulus around using your mouse, you can see and hear the response of your chosen cell. You can choose between retinal cells like photoreceptors, horizontal cells, on and off bipolar cells, on and off ganglion cells, and several varieties of cortical cells. You can observe properties like adaptation, lateral inhibition, and rectification into on and off channels. For cortical cells, you can observe orientation preference and experience the difference between simple and complex-type responses. See the home page http://www.ini.unizh.ch/~tobi/friend for updates and more information.

Main is the top level executable used to run the Physiologist's Friend.

See ch.unizh.ini.friend for the package structure.


http://www.ini.unizh.ch/~tobi/friend