brainbox.population.cca

Functions

bin_spikes_trials	Binarizes the spike times into a raster and assigns a trial number to each bin
fit_cca	Initialize and fit CCA sklearn object
get_cca_projection	Project data into CCA dimensions
get_correlations	param cca:
get_event_bin_indexes	Get the indexes of the bins corresponding to a specific behavioral event within a window
plot_correlations	Correlation vs CCA dimension
plot_pairwise_correlations	Plot CCA correlations for multiple pairs of regions
plot_pairwise_correlations_mult	Plot CCA correlations for multiple pairs of regions, for multiple behavioural events
preprocess	Preprocess neural data for cca analysis with smoothing and pca
shuffle_analysis	Perform CCA on shuffled data
split_by_area	This function converts a matrix of binned spikes into a list of matrices, with the clusters grouped by brain areas
split_timepoints	Assign each time point to testing or training fold
split_trials	Assign each trial to testing or training fold

preprocess(data, smoothing_sd=25, n_pcs=20)

Preprocess neural data for cca analysis with smoothing and pca

Parameters:

• data (array-like) – array of shape (n_samples, n_features)

• smoothing_sd (float) – gaussian smoothing kernel standard deviation (ms)

• n_pcs (int) – number of pca dimensions to retain

Returns:

preprocessed neural data

Return type:

array-like, shape (n_samples, pca_dims)

split_trials(trial_ids, n_splits=5, rng_seed=0)

Assign each trial to testing or training fold

Parameters:

• trial_ids (array-like) –

• n_splits (int) – one split used for testing; remaining splits used for training

• rng_seed (int) – set random state for shuffling trials

Returns:

list of dicts of indices with keys train and test

split_timepoints(trial_ids, idxs_trial)

Assign each time point to testing or training fold

Parameters:

• trial_ids (array-like) – trial id for each timepoint

• idxs_trial (list) – list of dicts that define which trials are in train or test folds

Returns:

list of dicts that define which time points are in train and test folds

fit_cca(data_0, data_1, n_cca_dims=10)

Initialize and fit CCA sklearn object

Parameters:

• data_0 (array-like) – shape (n_samples, n_features_0)

• data_1 (array-like) – shape (n_samples, n_features_1)

• n_cca_dims (int) – number of CCA dimensions to fit

Returns:

sklearn cca object

get_cca_projection(cca, data_0, data_1)

Project data into CCA dimensions

Parameters:

• cca –

• data_0 –

• data_1 –

Returns:

tuple; (data_0 projection, data_1 projection)

get_correlations(cca, data_0, data_1)

Parameters:

• cca –

• data_0 –

• data_1 –

Returns:

shuffle_analysis(data_0, data_1, n_shuffles=100, **cca_kwargs)

Perform CCA on shuffled data

Parameters:

• data_0 –

• data_1 –

• n_shuffles –

Returns:

plot_correlations(corrs, errors=None, ax=None, **plot_kwargs)

Correlation vs CCA dimension

Parameters:

• corrs (1-D vector) – correlation values for the CCA dimensions

• errors – error values

• ax (matplotlib axis object) – axis to plot on (default None)

Returns:

axis if specified, or plot if axis = None

plot_pairwise_correlations(means, stderrs=None, n_dims=None, region_strs=None, **kwargs)

Plot CCA correlations for multiple pairs of regions

Parameters:

• means – list of lists; means[i][j] contains the mean corrs between regions i, j

• stderrs – list of lists; stderrs[i][j] contains std errors of corrs between regions i, j

• n_dims – number of CCA dimensions to plot

• region_strs – list of strings identifying each region

• kwargs – keyword arguments for plot

Returns:

matplotlib figure handle

plot_pairwise_correlations_mult(means, stderrs, colvec, n_dims=None, region_strs=None, **kwargs)

Plot CCA correlations for multiple pairs of regions, for multiple behavioural events

Parameters:

• means – list of lists; means[k][i][j] contains the mean corrs between regions i, j for behavioral event k

• stderrs – list of lists; stderrs[k][i][j] contains std errors of corrs between regions i, j for behavioral event k

• colvec – color vector [must be a better way for this]

• n_dims – number of CCA dimensions to plot

• region_strs – list of strings identifying each region

• kwargs – keyword arguments for plot

Returns:

matplotlib figure handle

bin_spikes_trials(spikes, trials, bin_size=0.01)

Binarizes the spike times into a raster and assigns a trial number to each bin

Parameters:

• spikes (Bunch) – spikes object

• trials (Bunch) – trials object

• bin_size (float) – size, in s, of the bins

Returns:

a matrix (bins, SpikeCounts), and a vector of bins size with trial ID,

and a vector bins size with the time that the bins start

split_by_area(binned_spikes, cl_brainAcronyms, active_clusters, brain_areas)

This function converts a matrix of binned spikes into a list of matrices, with the clusters grouped by brain areas

Parameters:

• binned_spikes (numpy.ndarray) – binned spike data of shape (n_bins, n_lusters)

• cl_brainAcronyms (pandas.core.frame.DataFrame) – brain region for each cluster

• brain_areas (numpy.ndarray) – list of brain areas to select

• active_clusters (numpy.ndarray) – list of clusterIDs

Returns:

list of numpy.ndarrays of size brain_areas

get_event_bin_indexes(event_times, bin_times, window)

Get the indexes of the bins corresponding to a specific behavioral event within a window

Parameters:

• event_times (numpy.array) – time series of an event

• bin_times (numpy.array) – time series pf starting point of bins

• window (numpy.array) – list of size 2 specifying the window in seconds [-time before, time after]

Returns:

array of indexes