Fig. 6: Simulated network dynamics approximate dynamics observed in cortical recordings of area MT.

a Distribution of unit mean firing rates across the topographic network simulation in Fig. 2d (red) and the distribution observed across single- and multiunits recorded from area MT of awake, behaving marmosets (blue). b The distributions of CV for simulated (red) and recorded cortical data (blue). c CDFs of wavelengths for the simulation in Fig. 5c (red), its shuffle (yellow), and the observed distribution recorded in the cortex (blue). Simulated wavelengths were more similar to observed wavelengths in vivo after applying a smoothing kernel across space in the simulated network to approximate the estimated spatial integration of the LFP in electrophysiological recordings (250 µm, gray dashed line). d Wave speed distributions for the simulation in Fig. 5c (red), and recorded cortical data (blue) covered a range consistent with axonal conduction velocities (0.1–0.6 m/s).