Data associated with "Functional specialisation of multisensory temporal integration in the mouse superior colliculus"

<p dir="ltr">Dataset from Bianchini et al., "Functional specialisation of multisensory temporal integration in the mouse superior colliculus" available at https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.11.637674v3.</p><p dir="ltr">Companion code at https://github.com/gaiabianchini/Bianchini2025_SC/tree/main.</p><p dir="ltr">The data is organised into four subfolders:</p><ol><li>neurons_datasets</li><li>decoder_datasets</li><li>connectivity_datasets</li><li>movement_control_datasets</li></ol><p dir="ltr">Each folder contains the main datasets along with intermediate datasets obtained at different stages of pre-processing. Each dataset is clearly referenced in the corresponding analysis step.</p><p dir="ltr">Below is a short description of the datasets contained in each folder.</p><p dir="ltr"><b>1.neurons_datasets</b><br>Contains three datasets:</p><p dir="ltr"><b>retinotopy_dataset</b>:<br>Data from 979 neurons across 11 sessions in 9 mice, using high-resolution receptive field mapping across 35 locations (5 elevations × 7 azimuths), with 25 repetitions per auditory, visual, and multisensory condition.<br><i>Used in</i>: Figure 1E–L; Figure 3C–D; Supplementary Figure 2A.</p><p dir="ltr"><b>delay_tuning_dataset</b>:<br>Data from 5,360 neurons across 92 sessions in 24 mice, during presentation of audiovisual stimuli with multiple visual-leading temporal delays at a single spatial location.<br><i>Used in</i>: Figure 1C–D; Figure 2 (all panels); Supplementary Figure 2B–D, 3 (all panels), Supplementary Figure 5 (all panels).</p><p dir="ltr"><b>delayBA_tuning_dataset</b>:<br>Data from 1,104 neurons across 22 sessions in 6 mice, during presentation of audiovisual stimuli including both auditory-leading and visual-leading conditions.<br><i>Used in</i>: Supplementary Figure 4 (all panels).</p><p><br></p><p dir="ltr"><b>2.decoder_datasets</b><br>Contains outputs of classification algorithms trained on the <code>delay_tuning_dataset</code>.<br><i>Used in</i>: Figure 4 (all panels); Figure 5 (all panels); Figure 6 (all panels); Supplementary Figures 8–10 (all panels).</p><p><br></p><p dir="ltr"><b>3.connectivivty_datasets</b><br>Contains cross-correlation analyses:</p><p dir="ltr"><b>CCG_dataset_baeline_RF_mapping</b>: based on <b>retinotopy_dataset</b></p><p dir="ltr"><b>CCG_dataset_baseline</b>: based on <b>delay_tuning_dataset</b></p><p dir="ltr"><i>Used in</i>: Figure 3 (all panels); Supplementary Figure 6 (all panels).</p><p dir="ltr"><b>4.movement_control_datasets</b><br>Contains data from 9 sessions in 7 animals, used for analysis of sound-induced behavioural responses.<br><i>Used in</i>: Supplementary Figures 1 and 7 (all panels).</p><p><br></p>