Table 1.

HRLAnalysis^™ spike analysis functions currently available.

Function name	Description	Structure	References
getBursting	Identify periods of bursting for individual cells using Poisson surprise	Cell activity	Hanes et al., 1995
getPairSynchrony	Bivariate spike dissimilarity between two cells using the SPIKE-distance method	Cell activity	Kreuz et al., 2013
getPopulationSynchrony	Bivariate spike dissimilarity for the entire population using the SPIKE-distance method	Cell activity	Kreuz et al., 2013
getCOV	Calculate the coefficient of variation for cells that had more than 10 spikes	Cell activity	Dayan et al., 2001
getCellRates	Calculate the individual cell spike count averages	Cell activity
getRateBins	Bin the number of cells based on average spike counts	Cell activity
getRatesWithBins	Combines getCellRates and getRateBins	Cell activity
getGaussWindowRate	Approximate the fire rate of the population using a Gaussian window	Spike activity	Dayan et al., 2001
getWindowRate	Approximate the fire rate of the population using a rectangular window	Spike activity	Dayan et al., 2001
getSpikeTimes	Create separate vectors of cell index and spike time	Spike activity