SynapticModel

Code for simulations of a minimal synaptic model of Drosophila T4 direction-selective neurons, as described in our paper. If you find this useful, please consider citing:

@article{zavatone-veth2020,
    author = {Zavatone-Veth, Jacob A. and Badwan, Bara A. and Clark, Damon A.},
    title = {A minimal synaptic model for direction selective neurons in Drosophila},
    journal = {Journal of Vision},
    volume = {20},
    number = {2},
    pages = {2-2},
    year = {2020},
    month = {02},
    issn = {1534-7362},
    doi = {10.1167/jov.20.2.2},
    url = {https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.20.2.2},
    eprint = {https://arvojournals.org/arvo/content\_public/journal/jov/938384/i0035-8711-217-1-07027.pdf},
}

Getting started

Before these simulations can be run, the rootDataPath and sceneSourcePath directories must be set in the SetConfiguration function, or provided as arguments to that function. A subset of these analyses require the natural scene database from Meyer et al. 2014, which may be downloaded here (click for link). The database is provided as a set of .rar archives, each containing a set of .mat files. Extract the .mat files from the archives using a tool such as 7-Zip, and copy the resulting .mat files into a folder named imageData within the sceneSourcePath root directory.