User`s manual

Cerebus® User’s Manual
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Spike Panel
This app displays the detected spikes on all of the front-end channels. Double click on any channel to display its
events in the Single Neural Channel window (explained later). Use the <Shift> or <Ctrl> keys to select several
channels to highlight. Channel selection and other display properties can be turned on or off through the right-click
context menu. A map file can be applied to the display to change the spatial arrangement of the channels on the
screen to match the electrode array in use. Figure below displays channels of a 10x10 electrode array. If spike-
sorting rules are defined, the spikes belonging to different units will be displayed in different colors.
Figure 36 - Spike Panel
o Load Map File: The default map file for the spike panel is a 16x8 grid. A custom map file can be loaded to change the
layout to match the spatial arrangement of the channels on the screen to match the electrode array in use. Contact
Blackrock Customer Service to obtain the map file specific to your electrode array.
o Load Default Map File: By selecting this button, the default 16x8 grid of 128 channels will be loaded.
o Map File Information: Displays information about the map file currently loaded.
o Time to screen refresh: The drop down tool allows the user to select the time until the spike panel display will refresh.
The refresh rate can be set to refresh every 2, 5, 10, or 20 seconds, or Never to stop the refresh.
o Open Selected Channels: After selecting a channel, or group of channels, to display in the Single Neural Channel
window, click this button to open the selected channels or right click after selecting channels then click Open Selected
Channels.
o Refresh Screen: Select the refresh button to manually refresh the spike panel display.
o Magnify Current Channel: Select this button to magnify the channels in the spike panel. Move the mouse over the
channel to magnify the channel. When magnify is turned on, the channels will only be magnified if the spike panel
display window has been sized down.