Collect your own neural data! (Score 1)

I have a PhD in neuroscience, and teach at the Methods of Computational Neuroscience course in Woods Hole that patluri recommends in another comment. We begin the course by having each student collect their own data using the SpikerBox, and their mobile phones. These data can then be analyzed in Matlab, Pyton, etc. The experiments you can do are slightly different then what you are after, but it may be a good starting point. This summer, for example, one student collect data on the visual system of grasshoppers to verify the computational model described in this wonderful study in the journal Science.

Elementary Computation of Object Approach by a Wide-Field Visual Neuron
Nicholas Hatsopoulos; Fabrizio Gabbiani; Gilles Laurent
Science, Vol. 270, No. 5238. (Nov. 10, 1995), pp. 1000-1003.

This studied shows that a single neuron can carry out a multiplication of two independent input signals, and the student was able to reproduce these results and began to improve the model.

If you take the MCB80x MOOC currently being offered for free over at HarvardX, you can see videos on how to collect these data.

Disclaimer: I am the co-founder of the company that makes the SpikerBox (backyardbrains.com). We started it to help nurture a community of DIY Neuroscientists.