Saccades Exert Control of Motion Processing for Smooth Pursuit Eye Movements



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A PDF of the paper can be found here, or on the Journal of Neuroscience website.
Data contained in the paper is in one of three formats, generated using MATLAB v7:

All relevant MATLAB code (93 KB)
generatepaths.m -- will create a structure with the paths to the data for each monkey, for each experiment.
pull.m -- the main analysis code to parse trials from different types of experiments. Well-commented, this will take you from the individual trials for one experiment to a structure that is easy to analyze. Calls getlastdir.m (for directory parsing), digitaldiff.m (for differentiation) and readcxdata (mex code which will need to be compiled for your platform, for reading individual trials)preptype*.m -- * refers to a type of experiment; takes the output of pull and runs summary-type analyses, in preparation for figure generation.
figure*.m -- code to generate each of the figures in the manuscript.

.mat files (1.6 GB)
Each figure has a corresponding .mat file, and each experiment has corresponding .mat file as well.

All the raw data (2.6 GB)
Data for each type of experiment is stored in the following hierarchy: trial-type/monkey/date/trialfiles.

The paper figures can be re-created from the files above, but the final version of the figures are formatted according to an XML schema compatible with our in-house plotting program, Phyplot. An archive (182 KB) of the XML files corresponding to each figure can be found here.

This document was last updated July 17, 2006. Files correspond to a draft of the paper submitted April 21, 2006.

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