%0 Figure %A Helmer, Markus %A Kozyrev, Vladislav %A Stephan, Valeska %A Treue, Stefan %A Geisel, Theo %A Battaglia, Demian %D 2016 %T Many tuning curves are not “well-behaved”. %U https://plos.figshare.com/articles/figure/_Many_tuning_curves_are_not_8220_well_behaved_8221_/1638919 %R 10.1371/journal.pone.0146500.g002 %2 https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/6579360 %K attentional gain modulations %K attentional modulation patterns %K approach %K MT %K Noisy Data Tuning curves %K response %K model selection %K data-driven methods %X

A: typical example of tuning curve from the spatially-separated afix condition (compare with Fig 1F). The shape of the curve—including the position of the two peaks that should be elicited by the composite RDP stimulus—cannot reliably be inferred due to large error bars (std.). B: Histogram of estimated firing rate standard deviations (expressed in relative units, as ratios between std. and a matching mean), obtained by lumping together all stimulus directions and attentional conditions, for the spatially separated (left) and the transparent (right) paradigms. Both these histograms are strongly right-skewed, denoting the existence of cells with highly variable responses to certain stimuli.

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