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. 2020 Sep 28;9:e56619. doi: 10.7554/eLife.56619

Figure 4. Experience does not affect directed information flow between visual areas.

(A) Granger-causality equations (right) to model fluorescence time-series 2 (TS2) using information from TS1 (left). TS1 and TS2: fluorescence from region 4 and 3 respectively for one representative fish. F(t) is fluorescence for time point t; w1 and w2 are the weights calculated for each time point; e denotes prediction error. Figure 4 - equation 1 F2(t)=kw2(k)F2(tk)+e1(t) and Figure 4 - equation 2 F2(t)=kw2(k)F2(tk)+kw1(k)F1(tk)+e2(t) are the autoregressive models for univariate and bivariate signals, respectively. Figure 4 - equation 3 is estimation of Granger-causality level. (B) Average causality level within visual areas in spontaneous (no prey, top row) and evoked (prey present, bottom row) conditions, in prey-experienced (left column) and prey-naïve (right column) fish. Each box represents the F-statistic which quantifies the statistical significance of the directed interaction from the region identified by the row to the region identified by the column. F-statistic values ranged from 0 to 23.7. Fstat values above 15 are yellow. Brain areas shown are: 1, left pretectum; 2, right pretectum; 3, left tectal neuropil; 4, right tectal neuropil; 5, left tectal PVN; 6, right tectal PVN. Significant causal interaction causality link for Fstat > 3.88. No significant difference between prey-experienced and prey-naïve fish in either spontaneous or evoked Granger-causality matrices (pairwise ts, corrected using the Benjamini-Hochberg False Discovery Rate (FDR), see Materials and methods, Behavioral data analysis and statistics; see Supplementary file 2 for p-values). (C) Schematics of functional links in visual areas in spontaneous (left) and evoked (right) conditions. Line width proportional to Granger-causality level (evoked and spontaneous maps indicate links with Fstat > 3.88). (D) Anatomy and known connections of the optic tectum. Dark green: input from pretectum to OT. Bright green: PVNs with dendritic arborization in tectal neuropil. Yellow: axonal projections from PVNs to different layers of OT. SO, stratum opticum; SFGS, stratum fibrosum et griseum superficiale; SGC, stratum griseum centrale; SAC, stratum album centrale. See also Figure 4—figure supplement 1. Data table for panel B in Figure 4—source data 1.

Figure 4—source data 1.

Figure 4.

Figure 4—figure supplement 1. Experience does not affect circuit covariance in visual areas.

Figure 4—figure supplement 1.

(A) Pairwise covariance (a non-directed measure of interaction) was calculated between the visual areas in spontaneous (top row) and evoked (bottom row) conditions and prey-experienced (left column) and prey-naïve (right column) fish. There were no statistical differences between prey-experienced and prey-naïve fish in the spontaneous or the evoked conditions (pairwise Ts, FDR corrected). (B) Links with linear correlation values higher than 0.5 for spontaneous (top) and evoked (bottom) conditions are represented by the orange arrows. Data table for panel A in Figure 4—figure supplement 1—source data 1.
Figure 4—figure supplement 1—source data 1.