Table 1.
Top 15 parameters
| Category | Parameter | Description/definition |
|---|---|---|
| General activity (“Firing”) | Mean firing rate (Hz) | Total number of spikes over the duration of the analysis |
| Number of spikes | Total number of spikes over the duration of the analysis | |
| Number of bursts | Total number of single-electrode bursts over the duration of the analysis | |
| Burst structure | Burst duration (average) | Average time from the first to the last spike in a burst |
| Interburst interval (average) | Average time between the start of bursts | |
| Burst percentage-avg | The number of spikes in a burst divided by the total number of bursts, times 100 | |
| Burst percentage-std | Standard deviation of the burst percentage | |
| Number of spikes/burst (avg) | Average number of spikes in a burst | |
| Connectivity | Network burst percentage | The number of spikes in network bursts divided by the total number of spikes, times 100 |
| #Spikes/network burst-avg | The average number of spikes in a network burst | |
| #Spikes/network burst-std | The standard deviation of the number of spikes in a network burst | |
| #Electrodes participating in Burst-avg | The average number of electrodes participating in a network burst | |
| Area under cross-correlation | Area under the well-wide pooled inter-electrode cross-correlation | |
| Full-width at half-height of cross-correlation | Distance along the x-axis from the left half height to the center half height of the normalized cross correlogram | |
| Synchrony Index | A unit measure of synchrony between 0 and 1 | |
Definitions are summarized from Axion Biosystems neural metric tool metric definitions (v2.4)