University of Houston
Department of Computer Science


In partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of
Master of Science


Yiji Lin
will defend his thesis

A New stimuli-control and data acquisition system
For neuroscience




Abstract

This is a suggested A wealth of software has been introduced as tools of neuroscience in recent years. However, the software is too general to fit the projects studying how neurons in the visual cortex combine visual information from two eyes. In this paper, I will report the development of the Visual Experiment Recording And Stimulation System (VERAS) which includes a set of software and hardware to meet the stimuli generation and data analysis requirements of the experiments.

The VERAS system consists of a stimulus-control subsystem and a data-acquisition subsystem. In the stimulus-control subsystem, I developed an application called Verasmfc by using Microsoft VC++. The Verasmfc application can present specific graphic stimuli in a desirable sequence. In the data-acquisition subsystem, I developed another C++ application called BWDDEClient. The BWDDEClient application can communicate with the Verasmfc application through a serial port and exchange data with commercial software called BrainWare. The VERAS system incorporated two subsystems to meet experiment requirements.




Date: Monday, December 1, 2003
Time: 3:00 - 4:30 PM
Place: 550-PGH



Faculty, students, and the general public are invited.
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Olin Johnson