Fig. 7: Neuronal activity of an exemplary neuron throughout the entire trial.

Exemplary neuron selective to numerical value 3 throughout an entire trial. Dot raster histogram, spike-density functions, and color code are the same as in Fig. 3c–g. Pictograms above the dot raster histograms show the respective task period. Because the time intervals between the crow’s unitary responses in the motor execution period varied (see our timing controls for the different arrangements), the execution responses are temporally interrupted; trials are temporally aligned to previous enumeration pecks (indicated by downward triangle symbols). The gray shaded areas show the time periods over which tuning curves (insets) are summated. Error bars herein depict the SEM over trials (n = 111, 111, 68, 61, 51 trials for target number 1–5, respectively). The shaded area during the motor planning period corresponds to the selective interval of this cell (cf. Fig. 3c). FR firing rate. Source data are provided as a Source Data file.