Figure 7. Sensitization predicts future object location.

(A) Camouflaged stimulus (top), shown in space (vertical axis) and time (horizontal axis), was composed of 50 μm bars, of 15 % contrast. The dashed vertical line indicates the time the object stopped moving relative to the background. Average firing rate response of sensitizing cells (n = 7, bottom), normalized for each cell by the average steady state response for that cell during jittering background motion, 5 – 8 s after the object stopped moving. (B) Average normalized response for On (left) (n = 5), adapting Off (OMS cells, middle) (n = 39) and sensitizing cells (right) (n = 7), where each cell experienced > 1000 stimulus trials. Firing rate in (A) and (B) is shown as a function of distance from the center of the object’s trajectory during the time interval ‘Early’ in (A), 0.5 – 1.25 s after the object stopped moving relative to the background. Error was s.e.m. and was computed across the number of trials contributing to each spatial bin.