Extended Data Fig. 10: Control for the strength of context cues in the MDM task.

Here the context input vectors have been multiplied by a factor five compared to the network analyzed in Fig. 6g. (a) Context cues are thus able to set the functioning point of some neurons closer to the saturating part of the transfer function, leading to the observation of non-linear mixed-selectivity between context and changes in sensory representation with context. (b) As opposed to the CDM task, this particular feature of selectivity is not functional as revealed by specifically inactivating neurons with a high selectivity to context A or B, showing a similar decrease in behavioral performance as for randomly selected neurons.