Figure S5.  Readout of ‘identity information’ using the best 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, or 128, compared to readout using all 256 neurons, for ITC (A) and PFC (B).  As can be seen in A, identity information is less compact in ITC than abstract category information is (Fig. 4), while for PFC the best 16 neurons seem to contain all the information in the population of 256 neurons for both abstract category information and the amount of identity information.  As in Figure 4, the ‘best’ neurons were determined based on an ANOVA between cats and dogs using the training data.  Due to the greedy manner the neurons were selected in, and the non-optimality of the selection method, the information represented in the subsets of neurons is an underestimate of how much information be present if the ‘real’ best n neurons were selected. 


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