Overall correlations were significant for precentral and postperipheral
saccade aligned activity and increased from 0.050 and 0.076 to 0.145 and 0.157, respectively.
Not exact matches
Plots are
aligned to two events in the trial: left, target onset; right,
saccade onset.
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.
In order to determine what factors are associated with firing rate changes, we generated a prediction of neural activity by convolving observed neural activity
aligned with one
saccade direction with the intersaccade distribution times
aligned with the other
saccade direction.
(A and B) Average combined population activity, grouped by interval length,
aligned to central
saccades (A) and peripheral
saccades (B).
The same analysis is then repeated using activity
aligned to central
saccades.
The difference between this prediction and the observed firing rate for activity
aligned to central
saccades indicates how well activity associated with peripheral
saccades can completely explain task - related modulations in activity.
(C and D) Binned correlations between firing rate and current interval lengths for all intervals of the combined population,
aligned to central
saccades (C) and peripheral
saccades (D).
Thin lines represent the mean spike - density functions of the individual cells, where data are
aligned with
saccade onset and averaged across at least 5
saccades into the center of the movement field (within 0.5 ⋅ σmf).