Spike Studio is a data acquisition and analysis program written for researchers in neurophysiology, and is also used in several neurophysiology laboratory courses. It was written by the author of this FAQ, so take this description and review with a grain of salt. The program will collect data from several brands of digitizing board (including the macintosh built-in microphone), will show the data on the screen, and includes several types of analyses including spike and burst discrimination, determining frequencies, data averaging, and some other tools commonly used by neurophysiologists.

While Spike Studio is not flexible in the way that LabView and SuperScope are, it will do many of the things you would want in a teaching program. Its two advantages are that it does not require any programming or much set-up on your part, and more importantly its free.

Computer: Macintosh

Source: http://www.beakerware.org/spikestudio/SpStWebPage.html

Cost: Free

Last update 18th of November, 1997