] was used for in vitro recordings with stiff MEA chips with a built‐in 64‐channel headstage to perform electrical recordings. The sampling rate was set to 20 kHz and an Ag/AgCl pellet (World Precision Instruments) was used as reference electrode.
For in vitro and in vivo tissue recordings with flexible MEAs, the ME2100‐System (Multi Channel Systems MCS GmbH, Germany) and a 32 channel headstage (ME2100‐HS32‐M‐3m) were used. The NeuroNexus adapter (ADPT‐NN‐16/32) served to connect the headstage to our customized 16 channel PCBs. The headstage was mounted on a micromanipulator (Luigs & Neumann GmbH, Germany) to enable remotely controlled insertions. The McsMatlabDataTools Matlab toolbox (Multi Channel Systems MCS GmbH, Germany)[] was used to import HDF5 files created by the ME2100‐System.