same plot now colored by general region (with jitter for visibility)

Here's a better way of showing this. Each dot shows the average decodability of the stimulus identity (x) and the mouse's decision (y) across neurons within that brain region.

Corollary: If a brain region cares about one aspect of the task it probably cares about other aspects too!

This bar plot shows the correlation between how decodable different task features are across brain areas

(src: github.com/int-brain-la...)

For me it was "On Intelligence". A friend lent it to me when I was 19, and until that moment I didn't realize math and brains had anything to do with each other. I also just realized that, despite the fact that it completely changed my life (empirically speaking), I don't even own a copy of it!