FIG. 3.
Developmental changes in variance-to-mean ratios during the transient and sustained firing of V1 and V2 neurons. A: PSTH for an adult V1 complex cell from which its variance-to-mean ratio was calculated for transient and sustained components. For the measurement window, the transient firing was sampled for a period of 50 ms around the peak (left ) and the sustained discharge was sampled for the same duration (50 ms) at 100 ms prior to the end of 640-ms stimulation (right
). B: scatter plots of the variance-to-mean ratios of individual V1 (top) and V2 (bottom) neurons during transient discharge against their variance-to-mean ratios during sustained firing. Frequency histograms and median values (▾) are also illustrated for the transient and sustained components.