Burst Criteria Modifications

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Bursts are currently identified using a local window mean/std calculation and burst minimum size window with a std threshold. A few alternatives should be tested:

• larger windows where the definition of a burst is to have a peak above the higher std threshold (say 3 std) but the edges above a lower threshold (say 1std)
• running low-pass filtering on the firing rate for the local window to remove slow oscillations and then pull out burst events above a high threshold
• raising the threshold (say to 5 std) and lowering the burst size minimum