@article {Neto2016892, title = {Validating silicon polytrodes with paired juxtacellular recordings: Method and dataset}, journal = {Journal of Neurophysiology}, volume = {116}, number = {2}, year = {2016}, note = {cited By 0}, pages = {892-903}, publisher = {American Physiological Society}, abstract = {Cross-validating new methods for recording neural activity is necessary to accurately interpret and compare the signals they measure. Here we describe a procedure for precisely aligning two probes for in vivo "paired-recordings" such that the spiking activity of a single neuron is monitored with both a dense extracellular silicon polytrode and a juxtacellular micropipette. Our new method allows for efficient, reliable, and automated guidance of both probes to the same neural structure with micrometer resolution. We also describe a new dataset of paired-recordings, which is available online. We propose that our novel targeting system, and ever expanding cross-validation dataset, will be vital to the development of new algorithms for automatically detecting/sorting single-units, characterizing new electrode materials/ designs, and resolving nagging questions regarding the origin and nature of extracellular neural signals. {\textcopyright} 2016, American Physiological Society. All rights reserved.}, issn = {00223077}, doi = {10.1152/jn.00103.2016}, url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84984607318\&doi=10.1152\%2fjn.00103.2016\&partnerID=40\&md5=ceaa51b527bb23249ca47278d835972f}, author = {Neto, J.P.a b e and Lopes, G.a e and Fraz{\~a}o, J.a and Nogueira, J.a e and Lacerda, P.a and Bai{\~a}o, P.a and Aarts, A.d and Andrei, A.c and Musa, S.c and Fortunato, E.b and Barquinha, P.b and Kampff, A.R.a e} }