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-Readme file for Auditory Nerve model code from:
-Zhang, Heinz, Bruce, and Carney - JASA February (2001) 109:
-"A phenomenological model for the responses of auditory-nerve 
-fibers: I. Nonlinear tuning with compression and suppression."
-
-1.Compile
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-You can run the following commands to compile the model:
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-rm *.o
-make anmodel
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-If you don't have c++, try g++ instead(change the CC value in makefile)
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-
-
-2.Run the model
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-anmodel is used if you want to pass the signal through filter bank, 
-the typical usage of the program is as following
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-./anmodel -wavefile click -reptim 0.020 -banks 32 -cflo 200 -cfhi 20000
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-the default sampling rate is 500kHz, you should make the data in input 
-file with same sampling rate, 
-The reptim option determines how long(in seconds) the model should run,
-it will append zero if the file input is short.
-The banks option determines how many filters you want to run at a time
-(the Maximum is 64)
-
-The output is stored in file filterout and synapseout, 
-The first column is the time and rest are the output of the model with
-different CF. filterout is the output of the tuning filter,
-synapseout is the output of synapse as the average rate of the synapse.
-The spike generator is not included here(no refractoriness).
-
-3.For more information
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-If you want to know more about the code and how the files are organized, 
-please see html/index.html 
-
-or visit <a href='http://people.bu.edu/zxd/research/an2doc/index.html'>
-http://people.bu.edu/zxd/research/an2doc/index.html 
-for the AN model 2 Documentation source file navigation
-</a>
-
-This and other models are available from 
-<a href='http://earlab.bu.edu'>EarLab</a>, a digital warehouse of auditory models and data.
-</pre>
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+# Readme file for Auditory Nerve model code from:
+Zhang, Heinz, Bruce, and Carney - *JASA* February (2001) 109:
+"A phenomenological model for the responses of auditory-nerve
+fibers: I. Nonlinear tuning with compression and suppression."
+
+## 1. Compile
+
+You can run the following commands to compile the model:
+
+```
+rm *.o
+make anmodel
+```
+
+If you don't have c++, try g++ instead (change the CC value in makefile).
+
+## 2. Run the model
+
+`anmodel` is used if you want to pass the signal through filter bank,
+the typical usage of the program is as following:
+
+```
+./anmodel -wavefile click -reptim 0.020 -banks 32 -cflo 200 -cfhi 20000
+```
+
+The default sampling rate is 500kHz, you should make the data in input
+file with same sampling rate.
+
+The `reptim` option determines how long (in seconds) the model should run,
+it will append zero if the file input is short.
+
+The `banks` option determines how many filters you want to run at a time
+(the Maximum is 64).
+
+The output is stored in file `filterout` and `synapseout`,
+The first column is the time and rest are the output of the model with
+different CF. `filterout` is the output of the tuning filter,
+`synapseout` is the output of synapse as the average rate of the synapse.
+The spike generator is not included here (no refractoriness).
+
+## 3. For more information
+
+If you want to know more about the code and how the files are organized,
+please see `html/index.html`
+
+or visit [http://people.bu.edu/zxd/research/an2doc/index.html](http://people.bu.edu/zxd/research/an2doc/index.html)
+for the AN model 2 Documentation source file navigation.
+
+This and other models are available from
+[EarLab](http://earlab.bu.edu), a digital warehouse of auditory models and data.
+
+---
+
+2025-05-27 – Standardized to Markdown.
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