Journal: bioRxiv
Article Title: Local interneurons in the murine visual thalamus have diverse receptive fields and can provide feature selective inhibition to relay cells
doi: 10.1101/2023.08.10.549394
Figure Lengend Snippet: (A) 1σ contours of 2D Gaussian fits to the receptive fields of interneurons (green ellipses) and relay cells (black ellipses) aligned to the center of the stimulus grid (interneurons, n = 27; relay cells, n = 205). Fits were made to the full extent of each (sub)region for On, Off, On-Off cells or to the centers for center-surround cells. (B) Leftmost pair of box and violin plots show that the distributions of receptive field sizes for interneurons (green) and relay cells (black) are statistically indistinguishable; Wilcoxon rank-sum test and two-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov test (p>0.05). For box plots, horizontal lines indicate the mean, circles denote the median, and vertical lines the SD; for violin plots, horizontal lines are individual values. Remaining plots show distributions of receptive field sizes for individual classes of cell: On, Off, On-Off, SBC, and Adaptive (see for an illustration of adaptive cells).
Article Snippet: For non-parametric datasets, we used the Wilcoxon rank sum test (MATLAB function ‘ranksum’) in addition to the two-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov test (MATLAB function ‘kstest2’).
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