Fig. 3: Decoding the contents of conscious perception from simultaneously recorded prefrontal ensembles.

a, Normalized population spiking activity of down (green) and up (pink) preferring ensembles during up to down or down to up, PA (upper row) and BR (lower row) switches shows reliable modulation. Data are presented as mean, and shaded regions depict standard error of the mean. b, Cross-temporal decoding of conscious contents around switches during PA and BR trials and generalization across the two. Classification accuracy was computed for each pair of train and test time windows (see methods) in steps of 50 ms, using 150 ms bins. In both a and b, the delay between the physical stimulus transition and the OKN derived transition during PA trials is indicated with an orange dashed line (129.4 ± 36.6 ms). c, Cross trial-type invariance of the population code assessed by training a classifier on activity during one trial type and testing on the other, before and after a switch for a single 400 ms bin (starting 200 ms pre and post switch). Box plots (for box plot description, see statistical information, methods) depict the distribution of classification results with shuffled labels (n = 500), while filled circles denote the highly significant (permutation test, one-sided, estimated p-value: p = 0.00199) classification accuracy with real labels. Results suggest invariance of the population code, thus encoding perceptual contents. The presented results were computed with data from two animals pooled together. Similar results were observed for individual animals, which are presented in supplementary figure 6. Source data are provided as a Source Data file.