Extended Data Fig. 3: Individual lever presses are species-typical and unaffected by the MC lesion.
From: The role of motor cortex in motor sequence execution depends on demands for flexibility
a, Average forelimb movement trajectories (scaled) for the left (L), center (C) and right (R) lever presses for all animals (n = 7) in the flexible task context. Each line denotes a different rat. Top row is the horizontal (left) and vertical (right) trajectories pre-lesion; bottom row is the trajectories post-lesion. b, Mean (left) and max (right) forelimb speed over single lever presses, before and after the lesion. Lines indicate individual rats (n = 7). P > 0.05, two-sided t-test. c, Correlation of the mean forelimb trajectory (horizontal and vertical) during a single lever-press, across levers (L, C or R) and rats (n = 7), giving us n = 3 × 7 samples. Each dot indicates a correlation between individual samples. Comparisons are made across mean forelimb trajectories pre-lesion (n = 210), post-lesion (n = 210) and between pre-lesion and post-lesion trajectories (n = 441). For all subpanels, *P < 0.05, two-sided paired t-test. n.s. signifies P > 0.05.
