ef {EffectsRelBaseline}

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Human single neuron responses to race.

Description

This dataframe contains the responses of two neurons from the human medial temporal lobe to the presentation of synthetically generated faces which vary the emotion and race.

Usage

data(ef)

Format

A data frame with 1452 observations of the following 5 variables.

clustId

Identifier of the neuron, a factor with levels ch26cl3 ch28cl3.

name

Name of the image file presented.

race

Race of the face presented, a factor with levels ambigBlack ambigWhite black white

absResp

Number of action potentials fired during presentation of the image, a numeric vector.

absBkg

Number of action potentials fired prior to image presentation, a numeric vector

References

Valdez et al. 2013, "Race Selective Neurons in the Human Brain".

Examples

data(ef)
anova(glm(absResp~race,data=ef),test='Chisq')

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