About am-2

Information about the data.

Summary.

These data are population recordings from the zebra finch cortical song nucleus HVC during singing. Most animals had only one electrode, but some had two electrodes within HVC. These data examine the development of a motor control circuit essential for vocal learning and production. Juveniles, who sing plastic song, are compared to adults, who sing stable song. Data were collected as described in:

Crandall, S.R., Aoki, N., and Nick, T.A. (2007) Developmental modulation of the temporal relationship between brain and behavior. The Journal of Neurophysiology. 97(1):806-816. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17079340

Format of the data.

Data from nine animals is provided (four adults and five juveniles). The data for each animal is stored in a separate zip file. The data includes the electrode recordings along with the simultaneous vocalizations made by the animal. Data files are in MatLab format. MatLab scripts are provided for working with the data. Details about the data are provided in file crcns-am2-data-description.pdf. Total size of all compressed data is about 46 Gigabytes.

Conditions for using the data.

Feel free to use these data for any educational, training, and application optimization purposes. If you would like to publish analyses of these data, please contact Teresa Nick using the contact provided in the data description document.

How to download the data

Data may be downloaded from:
https://portal.nersc.gov/project/crcns/download/am-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 publication given above and also cite the data set in the following recommended format:

Shane R. Crandall and Teresa A. Nick (2014): Neural population spiking activity during singing: adult and longitudinal developmental recordings in the zebra finch. CRCNS.org.
http://dx.doi.org/10.6080/K0NP22C8

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 (http://www.cdlib.org/uc3/ezid/).