Anno Christopher Kurth

After slicing node collection, spatial metadata (especially positions) is incorrect in NEST >= 3.2

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**Describe the bug** When creating a node collection with spatial metadata containing more than one node, slicing and then fetching the positions of the nodes returns the positions of the...

Add functions yielding source neurons given target neurons

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In my work with spatial networks,I find it oftentimes useful to have an easy interface for accessing, plotting etc. the source neurons of a given target neuron. Currently, while there...

Add rectified Gabor distribution for nest.spatial

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A new ```nest.spatial_distributions``` functions to generate a spatial connectivity profile with probabilities described by a Gabor function (see [here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabor_filter)). While in principle it seems to be possible to obtain the...

Composing NodeCollections with spatial metadata

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**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.** In our work (@jasperalbers), we want to compose multiple non-overlapping NodeCollections that have spatial metadata, i.e. they are distributed in...

Add ```z_connected``` to values to be set for synaptic elements

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The ```z_connected``` variables in synaptic elements in used to keep track of the connected synaptic elements, in contrast to the ```z``` variable that is used to determine how many connections...

Rename to ```tau_vacant``` to ```decay_vacant```

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In the structural plasticity routine vacant (i.e. at a given time unused) synaptic elements decay with a "rate" (word used in the source code) ```tau_vacant```, also referred to as a...