Visual Coding Neuropixels

The Visual Coding Neuropixels project uses high-density extracellular electrophysiological (Ecephys) probes to record visually-evoked responses simultaneously from neurons located in the visual cortex and subcortical regions of the mouse. Spike-sorted data and metadata are available via the AllenSDK as Neurodata Without Borders files.

Getting Started

To jump right in, check out the quick start guide (download .ipynb), which covers downloading data, building peristimulus time histograms, and decoding images. If you would like more example code, see the full example notebook (download .ipynb).

The experimental design, data acquisition, and informatics methods are described in the technical whitepaper. AllenSDK API documentation is available here.