Events

Event data type in NeuroExplorer is used to represent the series of timestamps recorded from external devices (for example, stimulation times recorded as pulses produced by the stimulus generator). Event data type stores only the times when the external events occurred. A special Marker data type is used to store the timestamps together with other stimulus or trial information

Note

Events are very similar to spike trains. The only difference between spike trains and events is that spike trains may contain additional information about recording sites, electrode numbers, etc.

Internally, event timestamps are represented exactly as Spike Train timestamps. See Spike Trains for more information about the timestamps in NeuroExplorer.

Creating Event Variables

You can add events to the data file using Copy | Paste command in the Timestamps view (see Importing Data from Spreadsheets for details).

You can also create additional events based on the events in the data file. Use Edit | Operations on Data Variables menu command and then select one of the operations in the Operations dialog.