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Create and run detailed neural simulations
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Plot tuning curves (constant rate responses) by current? #176

Open tbekolay opened 12 years ago

tbekolay commented 12 years ago

Right now when you plot the tuning curves (constant rate responses) of a population, it plots them as a function of x. This is nice in the scalar case, as then you can visualize the effect of the encoders, making some tuning curves positive and some negative. However, once you go above 1-dimension, you can't easily visualize this, and so all the neurons are plotted as if they're on-neurons. However, this isn't quite true. It would be a bit more "honest" to plot the tuning curves instead as a function of input current. You could keep the old plot around specifically for 1-D populations (i.e., constant rate responses as a function of x), but don't make it available for >1-D populations.

celiasmith commented 12 years ago

I think plotting them as a function of their preferred direction is the right way to go. I'd leave this as is for now. Perhaps the 'title' should be changed to reflect this, and maybe the label on the x axis to help clarify.