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a) Distribution of the relative latency of eyelid PCs decreases in activity relative to increases in PC-MLIs (ΔPC – ΔMLI) in simulations with plasticity only at granule cell-to-PC synapses. The distribution of ΔPC – ΔMLI differences (mean indicated by cyan dashed line) is shifted to the right of zero (black dashed line), indicating that PC activity usually decreases more than the PC-MLI activity increases relative to conditioned response onset. (
b) Plots of the time of average normalized activity for all eyelid PC/PC-MLI pairs from the simulation with plasticity only at granule cell-to-PC synapses, aligned to response onset (black dot). Green represents 100 ms before response onset and blue represents 100 ms after response onset in each case (inset). PC activity tended to decrease before the time of conditioned response (CR) onset and then continued to decrease after CR onset, while the PC-MLI activity increased later. This was similar to the trend observed in vivo, as shown in
Figure 9—figure supplement 2a. (
c) Same distribution as in (
a), from a simulation with plasticity only at granule cell-to-MLI synapses. (
d) Same analysis as in (
b), for the results of simulation with plasticity only at granule cell-to-MLI synapses. The trend was for the PC-MLI to increase its activity before CR onset and the PC to then decrease its activity after CR onset. MLI, molecular layer interneuron.