Reversible inactivation of ferret auditory cortex impairs spatial and non-spatial hearing

Stephen M. Town, Katarina C. Poole, Katherine C. Wood and Jennifer K. Bizley

Ear Institute, University College London, London, UK.

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1. Read the paper

The full report is included with this repository as a pdf, or you can find behind at the Journal of Neuroscience (paywalled).

2. Explore the notebooks

Most of the major analyses of the effects of auditory cortical inactivation are outlied in specific notebooks (links to pdfs for browser, but Rmarkdown files are available in the same directories and best viewed in Rstudio):

• Vowel discrimination in clean vs. noisy conditions
• Spatial separation of vowel and noise
• Sound localization
  • Bilateral inactivation
  • Unilateral inactivation

3. See the code

Look in the Results directory for code for deducing outcomes and visualizing data in each part of the study. For more info on how to generate the sounds used in the study, see the readMe on Stimuli. For code related to behavioral testing, check out the repository for our data acquisition software GoFerret.

4. Use the data yourself

Summary data files are included as part of the repository. Clone and use the results to go further!