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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Nadler, J., DeAngelis, G. Precision pooling predicts primate perceptual performance. Nat Neurosci 8, 12–13 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn0105-12
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