A good fit between the predicted rates (green traces) and the observed firing rates (red and blue traces) would indicate that activity locked to
a particular saccade can largely explain the firing rate changes seen in the cyclical task.
Specifically, we looked at whether activity locked to
a particular saccade could completely explain the peri-saccadic activity aligned to the other saccade by generating firing rate predictions of each saccadic alignment on the basis of the other (Figure 5A) and behavioral variability.
Not exact matches
We first examined the temporal discharge profiles of
saccade - related neurons along the rostral - to - caudal extent of the SC for
saccades of five
particular amplitudes.
Cells were considered
saccade - related if they showed an increase in firing rate around the onset of
saccades towards a
particular region of the visual field.