Source code for LFPy.tools

#!/usr/bin/env python
'''Copyright (C) 2012 Computational Neuroscience Group, NMBU.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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import numpy as np
import scipy.signal as ss

[docs]def load(filename): '''Generic loading of cPickled objects from file''' import pickle filen = open(filename,'rb') obj = pickle.load(filen) filen.close() return obj
[docs]def noise_brown(ncols, nrows=1, weight=1, filter=None, filterargs=None): '''Return 1/f^2 noise of shape(nrows, ncols obtained by taking the cumulative sum of gaussian white noise, with rms weight. If filter is not None, this function will apply the filter coefficients obtained by: :: >>> b, a = filter(**filterargs) >>> signal = scipy.signal.lfilter(b, a, signal) ''' from matplotlib.mlab import rms_flat if filter is not None: coeff_b, coeff_a = list(filter(**filterargs)) noise = np.empty((nrows, ncols)) for i in range(nrows): signal = np.random.normal(size=ncols+10000).cumsum() if filter is not None: signal = ss.lfilter(coeff_b, coeff_a, signal) noise[i, :] = signal[10000:] noise[i, :] /= rms_flat(noise[i, :]) noise[i, :] *= weight return noise