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We thank the Laboratory of Diagnostic Radiology Research for magnetic resonance images. We thank J. Steinberg for secretarial assistance preparing the manuscript. We gratefully acknowledge the critical comments made on previous versions by J. Gottlieb and M. A. Sommer.
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Basso, M., Wurtz, R. Modulation of neuronal activity by target uncertainty. Nature 389, 66–69 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1038/37975
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