Figure 6.

Quantification of target versus distractor stimulus propagation within cortex. For each session, we compared target stimulus encoding in target-aligned cortices to distractor stimulus encoding in distractor-aligned cortex. A–C, Scatter plots of target versus distractor encoding in S1 (A), wMC (B), and ALM (C). Each data point is one session (n = 39 sessions). Note that the data are broadly distributed in S1 and highly biased toward stronger target encoding in wMC and ALM. D, Summary data, comparing reductions in distractor encoding within each region (values above each data point) and between regions (lines below graph denote statistical significance). Reductions in distractor encoding are significantly larger in wMC and ALM compared with S1.