Fig. 5: Sensory responses during hit, error, and LCT trials.

Sensory S2 neurons selected with significant periodicity information >0.25bits (IPer > 0.25bits, Eq. (10)). Superimposed normalized S2 sensory population activity for hit (dark traces), error (n = 105, mid-tone traces), and LCT trials (n = 41, light traces). Each color refers to one class: G-G (red); G-E (orange); E-G (green); and E-E (blue). Even if the number of neurons is the same for hit and error responses, the number of error trials is far fewer. Differences between responses associated with each class, calculated using integral square error, were found to be small (from 1.2 to 2.6%). Normalized LCT activity included all trials, since animals have no errors during this control (see extended version in Supplementary Fig. 9).