Figure 7. Significant preservation of neural code is found in visual and FPN regions.
(A) Analysis schematic. For each ROI in each subject, a representational similarity matrix (RSM) is constructed using the set of Mooney images that are not recognized in the pre-disambiguation period (PRE-NR) and recognized in the post-disambiguation period (POST-R). The Pre-Post square was extracted from this RSM, and the r-values were Fisher-z-transformed. Then, the difference between diagonal and off-diagonal elements was calculated for each subject, termed ‘Preservation Index’ (PI). A significant positive PI means that a post-disambiguation Mooney image is represented more similarly to the same image than other images shown in the pre-disambiguation period. (B) Group-averaged PI values for each ROI. Error bars denote s.e.m. across subjects. Asterisks denote significant PI values (p<0.05, FDR-corrected, one-sample t-test across subjects).