diff --git a/tests/validation/fixtures/LSTMLayerFixture.h b/tests/validation/fixtures/LSTMLayerFixture.h
index f4bae86..c3a5472 100644
--- a/tests/validation/fixtures/LSTMLayerFixture.h
+++ b/tests/validation/fixtures/LSTMLayerFixture.h
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2018-2021 Arm Limited.
+ * Copyright (c) 2018-2022 Arm Limited.
  *
  * SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
  *
@@ -458,7 +458,6 @@
             }
             input_gate = reference::activation_layer(input_gate, ActivationLayerInfo(ActivationLayerInfo::ActivationFunction::LOGISTIC));
         }
-
         // Compute cell_state
         SimpleTensor<T> fully_connected_cell_state = reference::fully_connected_layer(input, input_to_cell_w, cell_bias, output_cell_shape);
         transposed_weights                         = reference::transpose(recurrent_to_cell_w);
@@ -474,12 +473,13 @@
             fill(cell_bias, 8);
             cell_state_out = reference::arithmetic_operation(reference::ArithmeticOperation::ADD, cell_state_out, cell_bias, data_type, ConvertPolicy::SATURATE);
         }
-        cell_state_out = reference::activation_layer(cell_state_out, ActivationLayerInfo(ActivationLayerInfo::ActivationFunction::LOGISTIC));
+        cell_state_out = reference::activation_layer(cell_state_out, info);
         cell_state_out = reference::pixel_wise_multiplication<T, T, T>(cell_state_out, input_gate, 1, ConvertPolicy::SATURATE, RoundingPolicy::TO_NEAREST_EVEN, data_type);
         cell_state_out = reference::arithmetic_operation(reference::ArithmeticOperation::ADD, cell_state_out, pixelwise_mul, data_type, ConvertPolicy::SATURATE);
+
         if(cell_threshold != 0.f)
         {
-            cell_state_out = reference::activation_layer(cell_state_out, ActivationLayerInfo(ActivationLayerInfo::ActivationFunction::LU_BOUNDED_RELU, -cell_threshold, cell_threshold));
+            cell_state_out = reference::activation_layer(cell_state_out, ActivationLayerInfo(ActivationLayerInfo::ActivationFunction::LU_BOUNDED_RELU, cell_threshold, -cell_threshold));
         }
 
         // Compute output
@@ -515,7 +515,6 @@
                 output_state_out = reference::activation_layer(fully_connected_projection, ActivationLayerInfo(ActivationLayerInfo::ActivationFunction::LU_BOUNDED_RELU, -projection_threshold, projection_threshold));
             }
         }
-
         std::vector<SimpleTensor<T>> scratch_inputs;
         if(!cifg_opt)
         {