Fig. 3

Effect of the lesion on the firing units. Per unit correlation for RFA (A1) and S1 (A2) between baseline firing rates (x-axis, PreLesion (PreL)) and firing rates of immediately post lesion phase and pre stimulation session (y-axis, PostLesion (PoL1–3), Pre Stim (PreS)), respectively. Data is shown in scatter plots, where colors represent units that significantly (i.e. according to the bootstrapping methods described in the Materials and Methods) increased (red), decreased (blue), or remained stable (grey). The global number of units in RFA (A1) was 54.7 ± 3.8; in S1 (A2) the total number of units was 58.7 ± 9.5. Bottom: B1) for RFA and  B2) for S1. Average fraction of units that increased (red bar), decreased (blue bar) or no changed (grey bar) their firing with respect to the baseline period of recording (i.e. PreLesion, PreL) calculated for the immediately post lesion phase (i.e. PostLesion, PoL1–3, red) and pre stimulation session (i.e. PreStim, PreS, light blue). Data are reported as mean ± SEM (standard error of the mean)