EEA Course Documents

Materials for students

Read the ‘theory’ documents and other assigned reading materials carefully before the start of each session. The ‘exercises’ documents contain exercises and more theory that will be covered together with the teachers. They do contain a lot of text, so reading through the exercises in advance may help you feel more prepared for the session.

Day 1: Detecting Signals

To read before Day 1:

Software to Download

Safety

How to use a breadboard

• Theory Day 1
  • Introduction
  • Talk: Introduction
  • Types of extracellular electrophysiology
  • Electronics Refresher
  • Equivalent circuits in the brain
  • What does an acquisition system do?
  • The electrode detects changes in electric potential
  • References

• Exercises Day 1
  • 1. Using a multimeter
  • 2. Using an oscilloscope
  • 3. Ohm’s Law
  • 4. Resistors
  • 5. Voltage Divider
  • 6. Capacitors
  • 7. Alternating signal (AC)
  • 8. Impedance
  • 9. Capacitive voltage divider

Day 2: Protecting and Amplifying Signals

• Theory Day 2
  • Impedance ratios determine signal transmission
  • Amplifiers

• Exercises Day 2
  • 1. Capacitor and Resistor in parallel
  • 2. The equivalent circuit of the electrode
  • 3. Shunt Impedance
  • 4. Operational Amplifiers

Day 3: Referencing and Grounding

• Theory Day 3
  • Differential amplifiers remove common noise
  • Instrumentation amplifiers
  • Why do we need a ground electrode?
  • Low and High pass filtering

• Exercises Day 3
  • 1. Differential Signals
  • 2. Reference electrode
  • 3. EMG circuit

Day 4: Synchronization and Digitization

• Theory Day 4
  • Digitization
  • Talk: Acquisition and Synchronization

• Exercises Day 4
  • Bonsai
  • EMG into PC
• Project

No Hardware kit? Use these links!

• Exercises Day 1: No Hardware
• Exercises Day 2: No Hardware

Links for teachers

• Exercises Day 1 TA
• Exercises Day 2 TA
• Exercises Day 3 TA
• Exercises Day 4 TA