Source data and code for manuscript 'An executive network for the control of sequence-behavior in pigeons'

The contents of this folder are part of the submission of the manuscript entitled 'An executive network for the control of sequence-behavior in pigeons', by Lukas Alexander Hahn & Jonas Rose

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Data and code have been compressed into a .zip folder each. Unpack the contents of the folders to use the dataset. The dataset is split into two main folders and one Matlab file:

'code'
contains all analysis code to produce all figures and reported statistics of the manuscript (refer to the
MATLAB live script 'manuscriptResultsLiveScript.mlx' to run the analysis, please adjust the path information of where the data is stored on your computer).

'RESULTSSTATISTICS.mat'
contains all reported statistical values (generated by 'manuscriptResultsLiveScript.mlx')

'sourceData'
Contains all required source data files (i.e. pre-processed data) required to run the analyses stored in 'code'.

Data related to animal behavior was recorded using MATLAB (R2016b). Electrophysiological data was recorded by NeuroNexus microelectrodes and an INTAN RHD2000 headstage on an INTAN USB-Interface board, with a sampling rate of 30 kHz and was subsequently filtered for spike sorting at bandpass 0.5 - 7.5 kHz.

Data format is the MATLAB '.mat' type (which can be loaded in by MATLAB, or alternatively by the freely available Octave Software (https://www.gnu.org/software/octave)).
Data is organized in MATLAB structures, one file per session for behavioral results, one file per neuron for different alignments and preprocessing conditions (refer to manuscriptResultsLiveScript).
Structures contain individual matrices (labelled by a descriptive name) that contain numerical values or character strings.
Matrices labelled by the keyword 'Info' contain character strings that give a brief description of the loaded data.
Source data contains two separate folders containing data of animal 1 ('P855'), and animal 2 ('T1003').

Data was sorted into different subsets, for analysis of individual task phases. Subfolder 'NCL' refers to 'nidopallium caudolaterale', 'NIML' refers to 'nidopallium intermedium mediale pars laterale', the recorded brain regions.