About v2-1

Summary of the data

This data consists of extracellular recordings from well isolated neurons in area V2 in awake behaving macaque monkeys. More details about the data can be found in:

Format of the data

All data files (stimulus files, response files and a summary file --which contains metadata) are all stored in a format that can be read into Matlab, either directory (the summary file) or using Matlab functions which are supplied with the data set.  Details are given in file crcns-v2-1-readme.txt.  Total data size is about 30GB (compressed).

How to download the data

The data may be downloaded from:
https://download.crcns.org/v2-1
A CRCNS.org account is required.  See the download page 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 or contact Jack Gallant (email address given in "CONDITIONS.txt" file included with the data set).

How to cite the data

In addition to the citation requested in in the Restrictions section (above), if possible publications created through usage of the data should cite the data set in the following recommended format:

Willmore, Ben D.; Prenger, Ryan J.; Gallant, Jack L. (2009): Extracellular recordings from area V2 of awake behaving rhesus monkey. CRCNS.org.
http://dx.doi.org/10.6080/K07P8W9V

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/).

Documentation file