This python code for decomposing a whisking bout into phase, amplitude, and offset using the Hilbert Transform is based on the Matlab code developed in the Neurophysics Lab at UCSD.

Primary motor cortex reports efferent control of vibrissa motion on multiple timescales DN Hill, JC Curtis, JD Moore, D Kleinfeld - Neuron, 2011

Please also see Dan Hills GitHub repo for further information.

Computationally, the Hilbert Transform is the Fourier Transform with zero amplitude at all negative frequencies. This is equivalent to phase-shifting the time-domain signal by 90 degrees at all frequencies and then adding this as an imaginary signal to the original signal. So for example, the signal cos(t) becomes cos(t) + i sin(t).

The phase of the original signal is taken as the angle of this new complex signal.

inputs

• signal - vector containing whisker angle
• Fs - sampling rate (Hz)
• bp - frequency range for band-pass filtering

outputs.

• phase - phase estimate from Hilbert transform
• filtered_signal - input signal after filtering