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DEMO_BRUCE2018_AUDITORYNERVEMODEL
simulate processing across the auditory nerve

Program code:

%DEMO_BRUCE2018_AUDITORYNERVEMODEL simulate processing across the auditory nerve
%
%   DEMO_BRUCE2018_AUDITORYNERVEMODEL illustrates various processing
%   stages along the auditory nerve predicted as predicted with the 
%   empirical synapse model of Bruce et al. (2018).
%
%   Figure 1: Inner hair cell potential and mean firing rate
%
%   Figure 2: Synaptic spike rate
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%   Figure 3: Refractory and release time
% 
%
%   See also: bruce2018 exp_bruce2018
%
%   Url: http://amtoolbox.org/amt-1.6.0/doc/demos/demo_bruce2018_auditorynervemodel.php


%   #Author : Ian Bruce

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% model parameters
CF    = 1e3;   % CF in Hz;
spont = 100;   % spontaneous firing rate
tabs   = 0.6e-3; % Absolute refractory period
trel   = 0.6e-3; % Baseline mean relative refractory period
cohc  = 1.0;    % normal ohc function
cihc  = 1.0;    % normal ihc function
species = 1;    % 1 for cat (2 for human with Shera et al. tuning; 3 for human with Glasberg & Moore tuning)
noiseType = 1;  % 1 for variable fGn; 0 for fixed (frozen) fGn
implnt = 0;     % "0" for approximate or "1" for actual implementation of the power-law functions in the Synapse

% stimulus parameters
stimdb = 60; % stimulus intensity in dB SPL
F0 = CF;     % stimulus frequency in Hz
Fs = 100e3;  % sampling rate in Hz (must be 100, 200 or 500 kHz)
T  = 50e-3;  % stimulus duration in seconds
rt = 2.5e-3; % rise/fall time in seconds
ondelay = 10e-3;

% PSTH parameters
nrep = 100;               % number of stimulus repetitions (e.g., 50);
psthbinwidth = 1e-4; % binwidth in seconds;
psthbins = round(psthbinwidth*Fs);  % number of psth bins per psth bin

t = 0:1/Fs:T-1/Fs; % time vector
mxpts = length(t);
irpts = rt*Fs;
onbin = round(ondelay*Fs);

pin = zeros(1,onbin+mxpts);

pin(onbin+1:onbin+mxpts) = sqrt(2)*20e-6*10^(stimdb/20)*sin(2*pi*F0*t); % unramped stimulus
pin(onbin+1:onbin+irpts)= pin(onbin+1:onbin+irpts).*(0:(irpts-1))/irpts;
pin(onbin+(mxpts-irpts):onbin+mxpts)=pin(onbin+(mxpts-irpts):onbin+mxpts).*(irpts:-1:0)/irpts;

dt=1/Fs; %  time step

vihc = bruce2018_innerhaircells(pin,CF,nrep,dt,4*T,cohc,cihc,species);

[psth,meanrate, varrate, synout, trd_vector,trel_vector] = bruce2018_synapse(vihc,CF,nrep,dt,noiseType,implnt,spont,tabs,trel);

Psth = sum(reshape(psth,psthbins,length(psth)/psthbins)); %
simtime = length(psth)/Fs;
tvect = 0:psthbinwidth:simtime-psthbinwidth;

tt= 0:1/Fs:(length(psth)-1)/Fs;

px = zeros(size(psth));
px(1:length(pin)) = pin;

Sout = mean(reshape(synout,length(synout)/nrep,nrep),2); %
T_rd = mean(reshape(trd_vector,length(trd_vector)/nrep,nrep),2); %
T_rel = mean(reshape(trel_vector,length(trel_vector)/nrep,nrep),2); %

figure
subplot(3,1,1)
plot(tt*1e3,px)
ylabel('Pressure (Pa)')
xlabel('Time (ms)')
xlim(ceil(tt([1 end])*1e3))
title('Acoustic Stimulus')
subplot(3,1,2)
plot(tt*1e3,vihc(1:length(tt))*1e3)
ylabel('V_{ihc} (mV)')
xlabel('Time (ms)')
title('IHC relative membrane potential')
xlim(ceil(tt([1 end])*1e3))
subplot(3,1,3)
bar(tvect*1e3, Psth/nrep/psthbinwidth,'histc') % Plot of estimated mean spike rate
ylabel('Firing Rate (/s)')
xlabel('Time (ms)')
xlim(ceil(tt([1 end])*1e3))
title('PSTH')

figure
subplot(3,1,1)
plot(tt*1e3,Sout)
ylabel('S_{out} (/s)')
xlabel('Time (ms)')
xlim(ceil(tt([1 end])*1e3))
title('Mean Synaptic Release Rate')
subplot(3,1,2)
plot(tt*1e3,meanrate)
ylabel('Mean Rate (/s)')
xlabel('Time (ms)')
title('Mean of Spike Rate')
xlim(ceil(tt([1 end])*1e3))
subplot(3,1,3)
plot(tt*1e3,varrate)
ylabel('Var Rate (/s)')
xlabel('Time (ms)')
xlim(ceil(tt([1 end])*1e3))
title('Variance in Spike Rate')

figure
subplot(3,1,1)
plot(tt*1e3,Sout)
ylabel('S_{out} (/s)')
xlabel('Time (ms)')
xlim(ceil(tt([1 end])*1e3))
title('Mean Synaptic Release Rate')
subplot(3,1,2)
plot(tt*1e3,T_rd*1e3)
ylabel('\tau_{rd} (ms)')
xlabel('Time (ms)')
title('Mean Synaptic Redocking Time')
xlim(ceil(tt([1 end])*1e3))
subplot(3,1,3)
plot(tt*1e3,T_rel*1e3)
ylabel('t_{rel} (ms)')
xlabel('Time (ms)')
xlim(ceil(tt([1 end])*1e3))
title('Mean Relative Refractory Period')