Figure 2.

Links between intrinsic timescale and longer functional timescales. (a) Autocorrelation offset (B) reflects the strength of contributions with long timescales, which do not decay substantially within the fixation epoch. (b) Autocorrelation offset increases with intrinsic timescale. Colored lines show trends for individual datasets. The arrow shows the slope of dependence from a regression analysis (slope m = 0.8 ± 0.2 kHz). (c) In the Lee dataset, we previously measured timescales characterizing the decay of modulation of single-neuron firing rates by reward events, while monkeys performed a competitive decision-making task¹¹. The ordering of areas by reward timescale aligns with the ordering by intrinsic timescale. Error bars mark s.e.