MLIB - toolbox for analyzing spike data

Set of functions for the basic analysis of spike data from neurophysiological experiments

MLIB is a software package for the analysis of neuronal spike data, i.e., patterns of extracellularly recorded action potentials. In particular, MLIB contains functions for a) assessing spike sorting quality / unit isolation, b) constructing peri-stimulus time histograms, raster displays and spike density functions, c) analyzing single-neuron response properties. Among the latter, MLIB provides functions for the calculation of response latency, the disentangling of encoded features through multiple regression, the examination of coding properties with moving-window calculation of the area under the ROC curve, and the visualization of population activity with PCA-based dimensionality reduction. In addition, MLIB contains three functions for the basic analysis of local field potential (LFP) data (calculation of evoked potentials and their confidence intervals, spectral analysis, and current source density analysis).