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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Dec 28.
Published in final edited form as: Open J Neurosci. 2012 Sep 29;2:5.

Figure 5. Simulation of gain in efficiency using brain state-triggered stimulus delivery.

Figure 5

The advantages of state-triggered stimulus delivery for efficient study of the neural and behavioral effects of state-stimulus interaction increase for rare or brief ongoing states (for simulation details, see Materials and Methods). For example, for 200 ms duration states that are present 5% of the time (dark blue), state-triggered stimulus presentation leads to eight-fold more trials with a state-stimulus coincidence than random stimulus presentation. Neurophysiological techniques with higher single trial signal-to-noise and dimensionality can robustly identify such brief states online, and thus can benefit greatly from the proposed method.