Section: New Software and Platforms

Software

Visualization

• The NeuralFieldSimulator (https://gforge.inria.fr/projects/nfsimulator/ ) computes numerically activity in two-dimensional neural fields by solving integral-differential equations involving transmission delays and visualizes the spatio-temporal activity. The tool includes a GUI that allows the user to choose field parameters. It is written in Python, open-source and is aimed to be promoted to become a major graphical visualization tool in the domain of neural field theory. We aim to establish this simulation software as the first open-source standard simulator for the neural field research community.

• AnaesthesiaSimulator (https://gforge.inria.fr/projects/anasim/ ) simulates the activity of networks of spiking neurons subject to specific receptor dynamics. The tool is a platform to test effects of anaesthetics on neural activity and is still in its first stage of development. The neural activity is planned to be visualized in a 2D and 3D-plot evolving in time. It is written in Python, open-source and involves heavily the simulation package BRIAN (http://briansimulator.org/ ).