“…The following provides a short summary of the most common methods to the spike detection problem in the literature (Gotman, 1999;Wilson & Emerson, 2002 Mimetic methods are based on the hypothesis that the process of identifying a transient waveform in EEG recordings as spike could be divided into well-defined steps representing the reasons and expertise of a neurophysiologist (Gotman, 1982;Gotman & Gloor, 1976;Guedes de Oliveira, 1983;Ktonas, 1983;Ktonas, Luoh, Kejariwal, Reilly, & Seward, 1981). Distinctive attributes of the spikes such as slope, height, duration and sharpness are compared with values provided by the neurophysiologists.…”