File contents documentation?

[kdharris101]

Thanks very much for sharing this amazing dataset.

I am trying to load it, and have succeeded in loading the numpy objects, but struggling to understand what the objects contain and how to access their contents. Is there any documentation on what these structures contain? (I tried running the code but got errors due to missing libraries.)

[carsen-stringer]

Hi Kenneth, sorry I guess we're missing that, you can see how to load and use the keys from the dictionary here:

stringer-et-al-2019/utils.py

Line 98 in bd294c4

def compile_resp(dat, nskip=4, npc=0, zscore=True):

. and it's used in the decoders.py module. let me know if anything is unclear. The running variable is per trial

[kdharris101]

Thanks! I think I figured it out.

What worked for me was to import pytorch and then run np.load(filename, allow_pickle=True).item(), which returns a python dictionary. Without .item() I couldn't get things out of the dictionary.

PS we designed a file naming convention that makes it easy for people to know what is in neurophysiology data files without needing any documentation - described here .