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WaveMAP analysis of extracellular waveforms from monkey premotor cortex during decision-making

  • 1. Boston University
  • 2. Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin
  • 3. Stanford University

Description

Cortical circuits are thought to contain a large number of cell types that coordinate to produce behavior. Current in vivo methods rely on clustering of specified features of extracellular waveforms to identify putative cell types, but these capture only a small amount of variation. Here, we develop a new method (WaveMAP) that combines non-linear dimensionality reduction with graph clustering to identify putative cell types. We apply WaveMAP to extracellular waveforms recorded from dorsal premotor cortex of macaque monkeys performing a decision-making task. Using WaveMAP, we robustly establish eight waveform clusters and show that these clusters recapitulate previously identified narrow- and broad-spiking types while revealing previously unknown diversity within these subtypes. The eight clusters exhibited distinct laminar distributions, characteristic firing rate patterns, and decision-related dynamics. Such insights were weaker when using feature-based approaches. WaveMAP therefore provides a more nuanced understanding of the dynamics of cell types in cortical circuits.

Notes

Instructions for how to use the data files used in the analysis and to generate manuscript figures (in Python) are contained in the Readme.md contained in the Zip file WaveMAP_Paper.zip. Manuscript figures are also included in the zipped folder Manuscript_figures.zip

Instructions for pre-processing raw averaged waveforms (in MATLAB) and associated data are contained in the README.md file in the zipped Preprocessing folder.

Raw confocal images with stereological cell count annotations are uploaded in the Zip file Image_data.zip.

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Funding provided by: Whitehall Foundation
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