About am-4
Summary.
This data set contains single unit electrophysiological recordings of neurons in Nucleus Interface in juvenile male zebra finches (Taeniopygia gutatta). Recordings were taken while birds were singing (n = 89 single units, including 29 HVC-projectors), and also while they were listening to a tutor (n = 103 single units, including 29 HVC-projectors). In addition to neural recordings, we have included simultaneously recorded audio recordings. The results are reported in:
Mackevicius EL, Happ MTL, Fee MS. An avian cortical circuit for chunking tutor song syllables into simple vocal-motor units. In revision at Nature Communications 2020.
The methods that were used to collect this data are described in detail in the following protocol:
Format of the data
Raw data is in Mablab format. In addition to raw .mat files, annotations, metadata, and demo code is also provided. Details are given in the document linked to at the bottom of this page. Total size of the data is about 17 GB.
How to download the data
Data may be downloaded from:
https://portal.nersc.gov/project/crcns/download/am-4
A CRCNS.org account is required. See the download link for more instructions.
Conditions for using the data.
If you publish any work using the data, please cite the (Mackevicius et al, 2020) paper above and also cite the data set using the following:
Mackevicius EL, Happ MTL, Fee MS (2020). Single unit electrophysiological recordings in Nucleus Interface in juvenile birds singing and listening to a tutor, including HVC-projectors. CRCNS.org.
http://dx.doi.org/10.6080/K0GQ6W0K
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/).
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