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. 2021 Feb 8;17(2):e1007831. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007831

Fig 12. The differentiator network readout (DNR) is more robust than the integrator readout (IR) against static readout noise, a proxy for slow modulations of the background network activity.

Fig 12

A: Firing rate of four different cells (filtered with a 1 sliding window) during juxtacellular recording sessions in the barrel cortex. The slow changes in firing rate are unrelated to stimulation events and give an example of slow non-stationarities present in vivo (note that the time window shown here is larger by orders of magnitude from the typical duration of a single trial in the detection experiments). B: Effect size measured in the model for the case of 400 ms stimulation on increasing σr,ext, the standard deviation of the global background input (input readout noise). Light blue diamonds represent results obtained from the integrator readout (IR), whereas green diamonds are results from the differentiator network readout (DNR). C: same as B, but for the case that irregular stimuli are used.