
) and laser-off (trials) as well as the respective indifference point for each condition. (B), Transitivity plots are shown for the blocked (left) and patent (right) fiber types. Transitivity measures represent the consistency of food pellet preferences across six sessions in which animals experienced each of the possible pairs of three pellets (A-C,A-B,B-C) for both fiber-type conditions. Stable and consistent preferences should be in accordance with the relation: IP A:C » IP A:B Â IP B:C which can be visualized in the scatterplots as points falling close to the identity line. The Y-and X-axes show the IP, in log scale, for the pellet pair with the largest preference difference, IP A:C , and the product of the IPs from the other two pairs (IP A:B Â IP B:C ). The within-session pairs of laser-on trials (yellow symbols) and laser-off trials (grey symbols) are indicated by a dark grey line connecting the scatterplot pairs. Histograms comparing laser-on and -off trials are shown in the background for each of the plots. The six sessions shown in (A) are marked with a red outline on the respective scatter points in (B) Data is provided in Supplementary file 3 andFigure 5-source **data** 1. (C) The distances between within-session pairs (the lengths of the grey lines connecting the scatterplot pairs in (B) plotted as the cumulative empirical distribution function for each of the fiber-type conditions (blocked: yellow, patent: brown). For **data** seeFigure 5-source **data** 1. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.38963.011The following source **data** is available for figure 5:Source **data** 1. Text File Containing the Source Data forFigure 5with the Same Layout as in Supplementary file 3. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.38963.012
