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The Power of Interstimulus Interval for the Assessment of Temporal Processing in Rodents
Published on: April 19, 2019
Matching the waveform and the temporal window in the creation of experimental signals
William M Hartmann1, Eric M Wolf
1Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA. hartmann@pa.msu.edu
Abstract:
When a periodic waveform with a discrete-harmonic spectrum is temporally windowed to make a signal, its spectrum becomes a continuous function of frequency. However, there are discrete-frequency representations for windowed signals such as the Fourier series representation of a periodically extended signal. This article introduces the concept of matching between the temporal window and the periodic waveform. Matching leads to a discrete-frequency representation in which the Fourier transform of the windowed signal preserves the amplitudes and phases of the waveform on the set of original waveform frequencies. Generating signals with matched window and waveform leads to important control of experiments.
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