Treue and colleagues use electrophysiological recordings in monkeys and psychophysical experiments in humans to suggest that the shape of a population response in a motion sensitive region of the brain (area MT), rather than the peak of the response, determines motion perception.
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Groh, J. Predicting perception from population codes. Nat Neurosci 3, 201–202 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/72895
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