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About aa-2

Information about the data.

Summary.

This data set contains about 500 single-unit recordings from different audio areas in zebra finches.  The specific areas recorded from include: Caudal Mesopallium (CM); Primary Forebrain (from subareas L1, L2a, L2b, L3 and L);  Nucleus Ovoidalis (OV); and Mesencephalicus lateral dorsalis (MLd).  In most of the experiments, recordings were collected from two brain regions simultaneously.  For each experiment multiple sound stimuli were used.  In most cases each stimulus was repeated about 10 times.  The experiments for much of the data are summarized in the following paper:

Sound representation methods for spectro-temporal receptive field estimation.  Journal of Computational Neuroscience. 2006 Aug;21(1):5-20 (10.1007/s10827-006-7059-4).  Patrick Gill, Junli Zhang, Sarah M. N. Woolley, Thane Fremouw and Frédéric E. Theunissen

Information about stimuli and responses from OV can be found in this paper:

Role of the Zebra Finch Auditory Thalamus in Generating Complex Representations for Natural Sounds. Journal of Neurophysiology.  2010 Aug;104(2):784-98. (10.​1152/​jn.​00128.​201). Noopur Amin, Patrick Gill, Frederic E Theunissen

Format of the data.

Responses of neurons are stored as text files with each row specifying the times of individual spikes to a particular trial of a stimulus.  Stimuli are stored as audio wav files.  Details of the dtat formats are describe in file crcns-aa2-README.txt.  The total size of the data set is about 180 MB uncompressed.

Conditions for using the data.

The data took years to collect by the experimenters.  Instructions for crediting and consulting the experimenters is given in the README.txt file for the data set.

How to download the data

Data may be downloaded from:
https://portal.nersc.gov/project/crcns/download/aa-2
A CRCNS.org account is required. See the download link for more instructions.

Getting help using the data.

If you have questions about using the data, post them on the forum for using data sets.  Also see instruction for consulting the experiments in the README file.

How to cite the data

Publications created through usage of the data should cite the data set in the following recommended format:

Theunissen, Frederic E.; Gill, Patrick; Noopur, Amin; Zhang, Junli; Woolley, Sarah M. N.; Fremouw, Thane (2011): Single-unit recordings from multiple auditory areas in male zebra finches. CRCNS.org.
http://dx.doi.org/10.6080/10.6080/K0JW8BSC

The above citation uses a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) which is assigned to the data set.  The DOI was created using DataCite (www.datacite.org) and the California Digital Library, "EZID" system (n2t.net/ezid/).

Documentation file

crcns-aa2-README.txt

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