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Focal optogenetic suppression in macaque area MT biases direction discrimination and decision confidence, but only transiently.

Elife · 2018 · PMC6086666 · PMID 30051817

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A shift plus a decrease in width on laser trials would generate the asymmetry, but the width change was also not statistically significant.), and for both approaches it did not reach statistical significance.

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highly significantno p-value reported
The effects of suppression on early/short trials (Figure 5A’+C’, Figure 7A+C) were highly significant in each animal individually, and the trends depicted in Figure 6 were qualitatively similar in both monkeys ( Author response image 3 ), although with some minor differences.

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a weak trendno p-value reported
The resulting traces ( Figure 4—figure supplement 2B ) showed a weak trend consistent with a covariation between response fluctuations and behavior (i.e., choice probability; Britten et al., 1996 ), but which was several fold smaller than in the original analysis that included actual photosuppression ( Figure 4B ) and not statistically significant (p=0.4, Equation 5 , β 6 ).

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