Dr Bill Heitler

Some interesting sites ...

Software (PC)

DataView

DataView

Data analysis and display

DataView

Neurosim 5

Simulation software
for teaching neuroscience

Free utility software

ScreenMeasure (v2.0): A light-weight program for measuring the size and orientation of objects in images displayed on your computer screen.

SpikeShaper: A tool for constructing generalized Hodgkin-Huxley action potential models, with some parameter fitting facilities.

KlustaWin: Unsupervised classification of multidimensional continuous data (aka automatic spike waveform sorting).

Scatter3D: A utility for displaying 3-D data.

RobustFit: Robust locally-weighted scatterplot smoothing (LOWESS) and robust polynomial fitting.

(Almost) all you ever wanted to know about ...

DataView

How grasshoppers jump

DataView

How nerve cells generate
their resting potential

Jeffress mechanism

How the Jeffress model
for sound localization works

How the Hodgkin-Huxley model
for action potentials works


A text tutorial

And a book ...

Neuroethology of Predation and Escape


Dr William Heitler (Honorary Reader)
School of Psychology and Neuroscience
University of St Andrews
Fife, Scotland KY16 9JP
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