Analysis of sound localization results is divided into three views of the data:
This is the main analysis presented in the manuscript that shows the effect of cooling on ability to localize sounds presented from one of many speakers. The behavioral responses of ferrets are considered as they were made. The main figure (Fig. 3 in the manuscript) showing performance for each animal by sound location is generated by localization_cooling_analysis.py and saved in images. Statistical analysis is performed in R and console output is save to localization_stats_report.
A simpler look at the data from sound localization above, but only considering whether animals made a response on the correct side of (left/right) space. A similar data visualization script generates a supplementary figure showing lateralization performance (script and figure), and statistical assessment are repeated under these simpler conditions (script and console output).
A further reduced view where only responses and stimuli presented from ±90° (i.e. left and right) were considered. Here, we've only repeated the data visualization step: (script and figure)
