About pfc-8

Information about the pfc-8 data set.

Summary

Action potentials and local field potentials (LFPs) were simultaneously recorded from medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), ventral striatum (vSTR) and dorsomedial striatum (dmSTR) of six Long-Evans rats during sleep and behavior. The rats had been trained to flexibly switch between two rules on the same T-maze within the same session. First in the visual discrimination task, one cue indicated the rewarded arm. Then in the spatial discrimination task, reward was provided on only one (right or left) arm, irrespective of the visual cue displays. Finally, the rat performed visual cue task again. Sleep sessions were recorded prior and after the behavior session. Results from the experiments are described in:

V.J. Oberto, C.J. Boucly, HY Gao, R Todorova, M.B. Zugaro, S.I. Wiener. Distributed cell assemblies spanning prefrontal cortex and striatum. Current Biology (2021).

The data set includes 16 sessions, each consisting of pre-task sleep, task, and post-task sleep. Electrophysiological signals (LFPs and unit activity) were recorded using fifteen independently movable tetrodes. Data include sorted spikes (times, clusters, features, and full waveforms), LFPs (at 1250 Hz), positions of the rat (coordinates of head-mounted LEDs as detected by the video system), and experiment descriptions. They are provided in the standard, open format of NeuroSuite (L. Hazan, http://neurosuite.sourceforge.net, see Hazan et al., 2006). Data analyses described in the above articles used our free (GPL-licensed) Freely Moving Animal Toolbox (FMAToolbox, M. Zugaro, http://fmatoolbox.sourceforge.net) and custom scripts provided in the archive.

Format of the data

The open data format is described in Hazan et al. (2006) and on our NeuroSuite website (L. Hazan, http://neurosuite.sourceforge.net). Data can be readily loaded in Matlab using our free (GPL-licensed) Freely Moving Animal Toolbox (FMAToolbox, M. Zugaro, http://fmatoolbox.sourceforge.net), which also includes extensive documentation. More information about the data is given in the document linked to at the bottom of this page. Total data size is about ? GB.

Conditions for usage of this data in publications

Please contact Sidney Wiener or Michaël Zugaro if you are planning to use these data for a publication in order to discuss potential authorship. In any case, if you publish any work using the data, please cite the publications above and the data set as follows, using the following:

V.J. Oberto, HY Gao, SI Wiener (2021). Single unit and LFP recordings of medial prefrontal cortex and ventral and medial striatum of rats alternating between visual and spatial discrimination tasks in a T-maze. CRCNS.org.
https://doi.org/10.6080/K0R20ZKP

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).