Arduino in Neuroscience research

[petteri_t]

Dear all,

Despite the obvious possibilities of using Arduino via LabView (or via Matlab or Python) to control instruments in scientific research settings, the Arduino platform had not been used very commonly. In an attempt to demonstrate the possibilities in driving LED intensity in neuroscience applications, we published the following paper:

Teikari, Petteri, Raymond P. Najjar, Hemi A.I. Malkki, Kenneth Knoblauch, Dominique Dumortier, Claude Gronfier, and Howard M. Cooper. “An Inexpensive Arduino-based LED Stimulator System for Vision Research.” Journal of Neuroscience Methods in press (2012). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jneumeth.2012.09.012

With the program code examples (LabView, Matlab and Python) available from Google Code:

http://code.google.com/p/arduino-v-neusci/

Hopefully our example will inspire other scientists to use Arduino with their research problems.

Best,

Petteri