Beta Frequency Event Rates in Human and Mouse Brain Activity

Neuroscience data from human magnetoencephalography and mouse local field potentials examines transient beta frequency events (15-29Hz) in primary somatosensory neocortex. The dataset supports analysis of how event rate and timing relate to perception and attention across species. It was authored by Hyeyoung Shin and published in 2020.

Use Cases

• Analyze the relationship between beta event rate and perceptual impairment in detection tasks.
• Compare transient beta event characteristics across human MEG and mouse LFP recordings.
• Investigate how beta events occurring near a stimulus correlate with task performance metrics.

Strengths

• Data is derived from two distinct species (human and mouse), enabling cross-species functional comparisons.
• Focuses on a specific, well-defined neural phenomenon: transient beta oscillations in the 15-29Hz range.
• Published under a permissive CC0 1.0 license, allowing for unrestricted reuse and analysis.

Limitations

• The specific data structure, column names, and row counts are not provided in the input.
• Data is from 2020 and may not reflect the most recent methodologies or findings in the field.
• Geographic and demographic details of the human subjects are unknown, which could limit generalizability.

Provenance

Source

Dryad digital repository.

Collection Method

Human magnetoencephalography (MEG) and mouse local field potential (LFP) recordings from detection and attention tasks.

Freshness

Last updated in June 2020.