Effects of neural ensemble size and composition on the decoding of attention in primate lateral prefrontal cortex

The allocation of attention can be decoded from the activity of lateral prefrontal cortex neuronal ensembles (Tremblay et al., 2015). One issue that remains unclear is the impact of a neural population's size and composition on decoding of attention. To investigate this, we recorded the responses of neurons in lateral prefrontal cortex of two macaques using microelectrode arrays while they performed a visuospatial attention task. During the...