Fig. 8: Feature selectivity and scalp topographies for targets and distractors in Experiment 2.

a Neural feature selectivity (gain of Gaussian) of target and distractor representations for Lag 3. Blue lines show incorrect trials and red lines show correct trials. Gaussians were fit to the averaged neural representation from 100 to 150 ms. To aid comparison, the grey bar indicates the average distractor representation (∓1 standard error of mean). Note that all distractors and targets have gain values significantly above 0 arbitrary units (a.u.) indicating robust feature selectivity. Error bars indicate ∓1 standard error of mean. b Headmaps showing univariate orientation selectivity over time, plotted separately for targets and distractors. Plus symbols indicate positive cluster-permuted differences between targets and distractors (two-tailed cluster-permutation, alpha p < 0.05, cluster alpha p < 0.025, N permutations = 1500).