The distributed nature of working memory

TB Christophel, PC Klink, B Spitzer… - Trends in cognitive …, 2017 - cell.com
Studies in humans and non-human primates have provided evidence for storage of working
memory contents in multiple regions ranging from sensory to parietal and prefrontal cortex …

Orbitofrontal cortex: a neural circuit for economic decisions

C Padoa-Schioppa, KE Conen - Neuron, 2017 - cell.com
Economic choice behavior entails the computation and comparison of subjective values. A
central contribution of neuroeconomics has been to show that subjective values are …

Distributed coding of choice, action and engagement across the mouse brain

NA Steinmetz, P Zatka-Haas, M Carandini, KD Harris - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Vision, choice, action and behavioural engagement arise from neuronal activity that may be
distributed across brain regions. Here we delineate the spatial distribution of neurons …

Learning enhances sensory and multiple non-sensory representations in primary visual cortex

J Poort, AG Khan, M Pachitariu, A Nemri, I Orsolic… - Neuron, 2015 - cell.com
We determined how learning modifies neural representations in primary visual cortex (V1)
during acquisition of a visually guided behavioral task. We imaged the activity of the same …

[HTML][HTML] Decision making as a window on cognition

MN Shadlen, R Kiani - Neuron, 2013 - cell.com
A decision is a commitment to a proposition or plan of action based on information and
values associated with the possible outcomes. The process operates in a flexible timeframe …

[HTML][HTML] Neural basis of touch and proprioception in primate cortex

BP Delhaye, KH Long, SJ Bensmaia - Comprehensive Physiology, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The sense of proprioception allows us to keep track of our limb posture and movements and
the sense of touch provides us with information about objects with which we come into …

A supramodal accumulation-to-bound signal that determines perceptual decisions in humans

RG O'connell, PM Dockree, SP Kelly - Nature neuroscience, 2012 - nature.com
In theoretical accounts of perceptual decision-making, a decision variable integrates noisy
sensory evidence and determines action through a boundary-crossing criterion. Signals …

Emergent reliability in sensory cortical coding and inter-area communication

S Ebrahimi, J Lecoq, O Rumyantsev, T Tasci, Y Zhang… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Reliable sensory discrimination must arise from high-fidelity neural representations and
communication between brain areas. However, how neocortical sensory processing …

Measuring and interpreting neuronal correlations

MR Cohen, A Kohn - Nature neuroscience, 2011 - nature.com
Mounting evidence suggests that understanding how the brain encodes information and
performs computations will require studying the correlations between neurons. The recent …

How many neurons are sufficient for perception of cortical activity?

HWP Dalgleish, LE Russell, AM Packer, A Roth… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Many theories of brain function propose that activity in sparse subsets of neurons underlies
perception and action. To place a lower bound on the amount of neural activity that can be …