Figure 6.

Average response of the modeled V4 neuron response as a function of firing rate (contrast) combinations of the preferred and non-preferred synaptic input.

(A) Average firing rate of the V4 neuron during the stimulation period to the preferred stimulus combined with different firing rate (contrasts) inputs from the non-preferred stimulus. Solid black line represents response to preferred stimulus alone i.e. when synaptic input was provided only through the E_p population. The response to the combination of preferred E_p and non-preferred stimulus population E_np active at 20 Hz nearly overlaps the response to preferred stimulus alone (dashed line). Response to preferred stimulus input is successively suppressed when combined with non-preferred stimulus and is most suppressed when non-preferred inputs fire at 80 Hz (double dot dashed line). Response to the non-preferred stimulus input (E_np) active alone is shown in light gray.

(B) Average firing rate response of the modeled neuron to the non-preferred stimulus input combined with different firing rate (contrasts) inputs from the preferred stimulus. Light gray line represents response to E_np active alone. The dashed black line represents the E_np activity combined with 10 Hz of preferred stimulus input (E_p) activity. E_np combined with more prominent E_p activity of 40 Hz (dot dashed line) or 70 Hz (solid black line). Error bars represent standard error.