Bat Auditory Cortex Responses to Multi-Echo Streams

Raw neural data and stimuli from a study on how the bat brain processes overlapping echoes. The dataset includes electrophysiological recordings (PSTHs) from the auditory cortex of anesthetized Carollia perspicillata bats, alongside the acoustic stimuli and MATLAB analysis scripts. It provides a direct look at neuronal coding for distance and multiple objects in a specialized echolocating system.

Use Cases

• Analyzing neural population responses (PSTHs) to complex acoustic sequences
• Modeling distance and multi-object coding in the auditory cortex
• Comparing biological echo processing with synthetic sonar algorithms
• Reproducing the analysis from the associated manuscript using the provided MATLAB scripts

Strengths

• Includes the raw neural data, acoustic stimuli (WAV files), and analysis code, enabling full reproducibility
• Data is explicitly linked to a published manuscript, providing scientific context
• Shared under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license, allowing broad reuse with attribution

Limitations

• Column names and a precise row/observation count are not provided, limiting immediate understanding of data structure
• The dataset's temporal coverage (e.g., recording dates) is not specified
• Documentation appears reliant on a README file; completeness cannot be verified from metadata alone

Provenance

Source

Jerome Beetz

Collection Method

Electrophysiological recordings from the auditory cortex of anesthetized Carollia perspicillata bats.

Freshness

Last updated on 2026-03-20