spikes {NPCirc}

Neuronal spikes in a macaque monkey

Description

This dataset, given by Kohn and Movshon (2003), contains observations from an experimental study on macaque monkeys, where a macaque received a visual stimulus. The dataset is composed of 68 observations, consisting on the angle of stimulus and the number of spikes produced in a MT/V5 neuron.

Usage

data("spikes")

Format

A data frame with 68 observations on the following 2 variables.

direction

A numeric vector containing the direction of the visual stimulus (in degrees).

counts

A numeric vector containing the number of spikes.

Details

See Kohn and Movshon (2003) for details. This dataset was also studied in Alonso-Pena et al (2022).

Source

The dataset was obtained by Kohn and Movshon (2003).

References

Kohn, A., and Movshon, J.A. (2003). Neuronal adaptation to visual motion in area MT of the macaque. Neuron, 39(4), 681–691.

Alonso-Pena, M., Gijbels, I. and Crujeiras, R.M. (2022). Flexible joint modeling of mean and dispersion for the directional tuning of neuronal spike counts. Under review.

Examples

data(spikes)