Figure 6: Comparison between the tuning of an ellipse against the proximity to the next pinwheel. | Nature Communications

Figure 6: Comparison between the tuning of an ellipse against the proximity to the next pinwheel.

From: Superficial layer pyramidal cells communicate heterogeneously between multiple functional domains of cat primary visual cortex

Figure 6

(a) For each individual neuron the distance between the local ellipse and its closest pinwheel (x axis) was plotted against the tuning of the local ellipse (y axis). The tuning was calculated as explained in Fig. 2 (see Methods). The points were fitted by an exponential function of the form a*xb+c (SSE: 1.1289, R2: 0.4534, N=33). The data indicate that tuning of the local ellipse decreases with proximity of a neuron’s soma to a pinwheel. (b) Same as in a for only distal ellipses (SSE: 1.6000, R2: 0.4150, N=66). As with local ellipses, their tuning decreases with proximity to a pinwheel. Encircled dots in a and b are from neuron No. 10, shown in Fig. 5a.

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