Fig. 5: Temporal relation between activity and movement at the level of individual neurons.
From: Brain-wide analysis reveals movement encoding structured across and within brain areas
Histograms of optimal single-neuron time-offsets within each region. In each histogram darker colors indicate neurons with time-offset significantly different from zero. Black dotted line corresponds to zero time-offset and the black triangles and white dashed lines indicate mean; the numbers of neurons in the areas are noted in the subplot titles. The left column corresponds to more sensory-related areas and the right column more motor-related ones. a, Comparison between two cortical regions: somatosensory areas (left) and ALM (right). Somatosensory areas mean time-offset −12.8 ± 1.1 ms s.e.m., n = 870 neurons; ALM mean time-offset 8.7 ± 1.5 ms s.e.m., n = 1,059 neurons, P < 0.0001. b, Comparison between two thalamic subnuclei: PO of the thalamus (left) and VM of the thalamus (right). PO mean time-offset −11.6 ± 1.4 ms s.e.m., n = 516 neurons; VM mean time-offset 5.8 ± 3.4 ms s.e.m., n = 134 neurons, P < 0.001. c, Comparison between two midbrain subregions: pretectal region (left) and superior colliculus, motor-related (right). Pretectal region mean time-offset 0.0 ± 2.8 ms s.e.m., n = 203; superior colliculus mean time-offset 19.3 ± 1.8 ms s.e.m., n = 612, P < 0.001. The distributions were compared using one-sided Mann–Whitney U test and Bonferroni correction.
