The pre-, peri-, and post-saccadic responses of MT neurons in response to random probe stimuli flashed on screen.

The data contain the spiking responses of 41 neurons in the middle temporal cortex of two macaque monkeys during a visually-guided saccade task. In the experiment, monkeys were trained to fixate on a fixation point located in the center of the screen. After they fixated, a saccade target appeared 10 degrees away horizontally. Then, after a randomized time interval, the fixation point disappeared, cuing the monkeys to make a saccade to the target point. During this procedure, a series of randomly located probe stimuli were presented on the screen in a 9 by 9 grid of possible locations. Results from the experiment are described in detail in: Kaiser Niknam, Amir Akbarian, Kelsey Clark, Yasin Zamani, Behrad Noudoost, Neda Nategh, "Characterizing and dissociating multiple time-varying modulatory computations influencing neuronal activity", PLOS Computational Biology, accepted.