Fig. 3: MUA activity is modulated by the distance of spatial attention to the expected target and behavioral outcome.

A, B Single unit MUA activity pooled by TA (darker tones corresponding to smaller TA values) and upcoming target behaviour (hit trials blue, miss trials green) locked to the target onset (dashed vertical line). C, D Averaged MUA activity pooled by TA (darker tones corresponding to smaller TA values) and upcoming target behaviour (hit trials blue, miss trials green) averaged across all task-selective MUAs of all sessions. Activity is locked to target onset. Shadowed bands indicate the s.e. (N = 596 task-related channels). E, F Distribution of the modulation index based on TA (E) and behavioral outcome (F) across all task-selective MUAs of all sessions (N = 596 task-related channels). Black histogram corresponds to channels in which the neural activity was significantly different between the two classes (TA: Close vs Far; Upcoming target behaviour: hit vs miss, non-parametric two-sided Wilcoxon signed-rank test, p < 0.05). Gray color indicates channels showing no significant difference.