Extended Data Fig. 8. Identification of V1 neurons that contribute to the performance of the classifier of pseudo-saccade direction.

a, Classification accuracy of pseudo-saccades (cross-validated 10-fold) plotted against the ratio of top contributing neurons from control animals (n = 13 mice) whose pseudo-saccade responses were shuffled in the training dataset. The neurons were first ranked by their contribution to the accuracy of the classifier in decoding pseudo-saccade direction, determined from permutation feature importance (see Methods). b, The discriminability of pseudo-saccade direction (x-axis) plotted against each neuron’s contribution to the accuracy of the classifier (y-axis, feature importance). Darker shade, top 10% of the contributing neurons. c-d, Same as in (a-b), but for animals in which the pulvinar was later silenced (n = 9 mice). Note that the responses to pseudo-saccades used here were collected prior to the silencing.