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.

{@link ch.unizh.ini.friend.Main} is the top level executable used to run the Physiologist's Friend.

See {@link ch.unizh.ini.friend} for the package structure.