Statistics of uncertainty, population activity, and representational accuracy.

(A) Object detection task. Left column: full code (red) optimized for image reconstruction; right column: adaptive code (blue) for inference. Top row: uncertainty vs. population activity; bottom row: uncertainty vs. representation accuracy. Each scatter density plot displays 10,000 points. Red, dashed lines depict the linear fit. (B) Same as (A) but for the orientation estimation task. (TIF)