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Precision pooling predicts primate perceptual performance

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Moving stimuli evoke a response from a large number of neurons in cortical area MT. A new study investigates how perceptual decisions may arise from that population response, with important implications for theories of neural coding.

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Figure 1: Two direction-discrimination tasks used to study neural coding in area MT.

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