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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Nov 25.
Published in final edited form as: J Neurosci. 2007 Sep 5;27(36):9742–9756. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0817-07.2007

Table 2.

Summary of responses for motion directions along/about each of the cardinal axes

Rotation Yaw Pitch Roll

Left Right Up Down Clockwise Counter- clockwise

Vestibular 59/143 (41%) 50/143 (35%) 53/143 (37%) 50/143 (35%) 63/143 (44%) 66/143 (46%)
max-spont (±SEM) 5.1 (±2.5) 5.3 (±2.4) 5.7 (±2.4) 5.0 (±2.6) 6.6 (±2.5) 7.5 (±2.6)

Visual 73/128 (57%) 69/128 (54%) 73/128 (57%) 74/128 (58%) 73/128 (57%) 69/128 (54%)
max-spont (±SEM) 6.3 (±2.3) 6.1 (±2.3) 7.1 (±2.2) 8.5 (±2.3) 6.5 (±2.3) 6.7 (±2.4)
Translation Lateral Fore-aft Vertical

Left Right Forward Backward Up Down

Vestibular 111/340 (33%) 104/340 (31%) 99/340 (29%) 90/340 (26%) 108/340 (32%) 100/340 (29%)
max-spon (±SEM) 5.8 (±2.8) 5.4 (±2.6) 4.6 (±2.7) 4.4 (±2.8) 5.0 (±2.7) 5.6 (±2.9)

Visual 176/318 (55%) 157/318 (49%) 153/318 (48%) 155/318 (49%) 143/318 (45%) 164/318 (52%)
max-spon (±SEM) 10.3 (±2.8) 8.6 (±2.6) 7.8 (±2.7) 8.0 (±2.9) 7.5 (±2.5) 10.8 (±2.8)

Data shown represent either percentage of neurons with significant responses as compared to spontaneous activity (top) or mean (±SEM) evoked response (maximum–spontaneous activity), computed for all cells.