I am writing to share a contest that students and postdocs (and possibly
others) may be interested in. The Neurtex Manual Spike Sorting Contest
is designed to assess how accurately spike sorting works in human
intracranial microwire recordings and offers a $5000 first and other
prizes.
In the contest, participants are asked to perform spike sorting using
any method they choose to identify spiking activity in 120 channels.
These channels are a mixture of simulated and real recordings so
accuracy can be judged directly for the simulated channels.