About rrf-1

Summary of the data

These data were collected from the retrorubral field (RRF) of 11 adult male Long Evans rats using 16 wire drivable microelectrode bundles. Data include 743 single units recorded from 228 behavior sessions. Fear discrimination sessions consisted of 16 trials with a mean inter-trial interval of 3.5 min. Auditory cues were 10 s in duration and consisted of repeating motifs of a broadband click, phaser, or trumpet. Each cue was associated with a unique probability of foot shock (0.5 mA, 0.5 s): danger, p = 1.00; uncertainty, p = 0.25; and safety, p = 0.00. Auditory identity was counterbalanced across rats. Foot shock was administered 2 s following the termination of the auditory cue on danger and uncertainty shock trials. The order of trial type presentation was randomly determined by the behavioral program, and differed for each rat, each session. The microelectrode bundle was advanced in ~80 μm steps every other day to record from new units during the following session.

Single units were collected across the entire RRF anterior-posterior span (-6.36 to -7.08), although most single units were collected from bregma levels -6.72 and -6.84. Data included are the result of spike sorting. Sample scripts used to visualize firing and behavior data from our main data file have been provided. These data have been published in Current Biology and the complete methods are available with that publication.

For six of the twenty rats, the electrode bundle was centered at -7.68 mm from bregma, for seven of the twenty rats, the electrode bundle was centered at -7.92 mm from bregma, for five of the twenty rats the electrode bundle was centered at -8.16 mm from bregma, and the other two rats had electrodes centered at -8.40 mm from bregma.

Data included are the result of spike sorting. Sample scripts used to visualize firing and behavior data from our main data file have been provided. These data have been published in Scientific Reports and the complete methods are available with that publication:

Moaddab M and McDannald MA. (2021) Retrorubral field is a hub for diverse threat and aversive outcome signals. Current Biology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.02.055

Format of the data

The data is stored in Matlab files.  The format is described in the document linked to at the bottom of this page. Total data size is about 81 MB.

Conditions for usage of this data in publications

If you publish any work using the data, please cite the publication above Moaddab M and McDannald MA. (2021) and cite the data set using:

Mahsa Moaddab and Michael A. McDannald (2021); Recordings from retrorubral field neurons in male rats undergoing fear discrimination. CRCNS.org
https://doi.org/doi:10.6080/K04B2ZJ5

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 (ezid.cdlib.org).

How to download the data

Data may be downloaded from:
https://portal.nersc.gov/project/crcns/download/rrf-1
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, please post them on the forum for using data sets.

Documentation file