Figure 5.

NeuroMatic commands and notes printed to Igor's Command Window. (A) Screen capture of Igor's Command Window (Menu/Windows/Command Window), a useful tool that creates a historical log of the researcher's workflow, from acquisition to analysis and simulation. Both Igor and NeuroMatic print function commands and analysis/transform notes to this window. Function commands are preceded by a small circular bullet. Analysis/transform notes sometimes appear after the function command. NeuroMatic commands can also be printed to an Igor notebook (GUI/Configs/NM/CmdHistory/Notebook). (B) Screen capture of an Igor procedure window (Menu/Windows/New/Procedure…) named “MyFunctions” containing a function called “MyNewFunction.” NeuroMatic function commands were copied from Igor's Command Window (A) and pasted into this function. A simple macro named “CallMyNewFunction” was created to call MyNewFunction. Macros are automatically listed in Igor's Macros menu where they can be readily selected and executed. In this way users can create functions of repetitive tasks that need to be performed on multiple data files. Creating such user-defined functions improves research efficiency, documentation and reproducibility.