Table 4.

Persistence of neural signals related to the previous choice outcome

AllDelay 1Delay 2Post-Delay
DMS
    Pre-Delay33 (15.5%)8 (4.5)4 (3.6)9 (4.3)*
    Delay-129 (13.6%)4 (3.1)4 (3.8)
    Delay-223 (10.8%)6 (3.0)
    Post-Delay28 (13.1%)
DLS
    Pre-Delay10 (7.6%)1 (0.6)1 (0.4)2 (0.8)
    Delay-18 (6.2%)0 (0.3)1 (0.6)
    Delay-25 (3.9%)0 (0.4)
    Post-Delay10 (7.8%)
  • Same format as in Table 3 except that Fisher's exact test was used for all statistical comparisons because of small expected numbers (<5) of neurons encoding the previous choice outcome during two different epochs by chance;

  • *p < 0.05.