“…To decode the stimulus orientation from the population activity vectors recorded during each trial, we used a normalized template matching algorithm (Montijn et al, 2014). In an effort to evaluate the decoding based on the relative responsiveness of each cell, the trial evoked ΔF/F0 responses of each cell were first individually z-scored: θ, n, i θ, n, i μ where i indexes the N th neuron, θ is the stimulation orientation, n is the trial number, θ, n, i is the z-scored response, θ, n, i is the actual ΔF/F0 response, µ is the mean ΔF/F0 value over the monocular or binocular recording period, and σ is the standard deviation from the mean ΔF/F0 value.…”