The representation of voluntary and reflexive fast eye movements in the macaque lateral intraparietal area (LIP)
Abstract
Here we investigated the differential role of area LIP of the macaque monkey for voluntary and reflexive fast eye movements. More specifically, we compared spiking activity and Local Field Potentials (LFPs) in area LIP of two macaque monkeys during voluntary, goal directed saccades, and involuntary, reflexive fast-phases of OKN of similar metric (direction and amplitude). LFPs reflect the summated synaptic inputs and local processing within a neuronal population, whereas spiking activity primarily represents the output of individual neurons.
Description
The data was recorded from two adult rhesus macaques during two experiments:
1) overlab visually guided saccade
2) optokinetic nystagmus, by a large coherent visual motion that induces OKN.
All the data shared here, are pre-processed i.e. all the spiking activities and LFPs are extracted from raw neural data.
Each part of analysis have its own folder, one simply can download and run it to produce the results and the figures.
Each folder contain its own description text file.