Dealing with in vivo multi-electrode array data

我们研究的主要目的是开发第一个用户友好的软件包来处理体内多电极阵列（MEA）数据，作为理解气味如何由嗅球（OB）编码的重要工具和阶段，图像如何由视觉系统编码，以及神经系统中的多区域如何协调工作。我们希望我们的冒险将提供一个完整的答案，一些基本的问题有关的信息处理在OB，并揭示了新的光在大脑中的相关问题。使用MEA技术来检测由神经元群体编码的信号不仅对于阐明大脑功能的机制以及减轻诸如瘫痪之类的医学问题是重要的。由于这类工作也可能指导智能机器的开发，因此它被用来为计算机模拟大脑活动提供数据。

Our main aim of the research is to develop the first user-friendly software package to deal with in vivo multi-electrode array (MEA) data, as an essential tool and stage towards understanding how an odour is coded by the olfactory bulb(OB), how an image is coded by the visual systems, and finally how multi-regions in the nervous systems work coherently. We expect our adventures will provide a complete answer to some fundamental questions related to the information processing in the OB, and shed new lights onto the related issues in the brain in general. Use of the MEA techniques to detect signals coded by populations of neurons will be important not only for elucidating mechanisms of brain function, and for alleviating medical problems such as paralysis. Since this sort of work may also guide development of intelligent machines it is being used to provide data for computer simulations of brain activity.