About v1v2-1

Information about the data including cells, stimuli, format of the data.

Summary of the data

These data consist of simultaneous extracellular recordings of neuronal populations in visual areas V1 and V2 of sufentanil-anesthetized macaca fascicularis. V1 recordings were performed using a Utah array; V2 recordings were performed using a set of tetrodes. Animals were shown sets of oriented gratings (1.28s), with each presentation followed by a blank screen (1.5s). This data set includes 5 recording sessions, in 3 animals. The data for each recording session includes the spike times, and information about the stimuli presented and receptive field location of each unit. Each data set includes an average of 112.2 V1 units and 29.4 V2 units. Units consist of both well-isolated single units and multiunit activity. The recorded V1/V2 populations had overlapping spatial receptive fields.

Also included in the data set is a short MATLAB script for some basic data visualization. These data were described the following publications:

Coordinated Neuronal Activity Enhances Corticocortical Communication. Amin Zandvakili & Adam Kohn. Neuron, 87, 827–839 (09 August 2015). http://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2015.07.026

Cortical areas interact through a communication subspace. J Semedo, A Zandvakili, CK Machens, BM Yu & A Kohn. Neuron, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2019.01.026

Format of the data

Data are stored in mat files. Total data size is about 143MB. The format of the data are described in the data description document listed at the end of this page.

How to download the data

Data may be downloaded from:
https://portal.nersc.gov/project/crcns/download/v1v2-1
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.

How to cite the data

If you publish any work using the data, please cite the (Zandvakili and Kohn, 2015) publication above and the data set using following:

Amin Zandvakili and Adam Kohn (2019). Paired V1-V2 neuronal spiking responses in anesthetized macaque monkey. CRCNS.org.
http://dx.doi.org/10.6080/K0B27SHN

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://ezid.cdlib.org/).