“…The focus of Basic Protocol 2 is the optimization of experimental parameters to reduce confounds and improve experimental validity. This section does not cover procedures specific to post-processing of data or relevant statistical analyses, but several previously published protocols can be found on these topics, especially those related to general recommendations for analyses and assessing recording quality (Eichenbaum & Davis, 1998;Friend et al, 2015;Harris et al, 2017;Mohapatra et al, 2022;Rieke et al, 1999;Zhao et al, 2014;Journal of Neuroscience, 2018).…”