Accumulators, neurons, and response time

JD Schall - Trends in neurosciences, 2019 - cell.com
The marriage of cognitive neurophysiology and mathematical psychology to understand
decision-making has been exceptionally productive. This interdisciplinary area is based on …

[HTML][HTML] Widespread implementations of interactive social gaze neurons in the primate prefrontal-amygdala networks

O Dal Monte, S Fan, NA Fagan, CCJ Chu, MB Zhou… - Neuron, 2022 - cell.com
Social gaze interaction powerfully shapes interpersonal communication. However,
compared with social perception, very little is known about the neuronal underpinnings of …

Prefrontal cortical plasticity during learning of cognitive tasks

H Tang, MR Riley, B Singh, XL Qi, DT Blake… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Training in working memory tasks is associated with lasting changes in prefrontal cortical
activity. To assess the neural activity changes induced by training, we recorded single units …

Task and stimulus coding in the multiple-demand network

S Shashidhara, M Assem, MF Glasser… - Cerebral …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
In the human brain, a multiple-demand (MD) network plays a key role in cognitive control,
with core components in lateral frontal, dorsomedial frontal and lateral parietal cortex, and …

Convergent representation of values from tactile and visual inputs for efficient goal-directed behavior in the primate putamen

SH Hwang, D Park, JW Lee, SH Lee, HF Kim - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Animals can discriminate diverse sensory values with a limited number of neurons, raising
questions about how the brain utilizes neural resources to efficiently process multi …

A one-shot shift from explore to exploit in monkey prefrontal cortex

J Achterberg, M Kadohisa, K Watanabe… - Journal of …, 2022 - Soc Neuroscience
Much animal learning is slow, with cumulative changes in behavior driven by reward
prediction errors. When the abstract structure of a problem is known, however, both animals …

More prominent nonlinear mixed selectivity in the dorsolateral prefrontal than posterior parietal cortex

W Dang, S Li, S Pu, XL Qi, C Constantinidis - Eneuro, 2022 - eneuro.org
Neurons in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) and posterior parietal cortex (PPC) are
activated by different cognitive tasks and respond differently to the same stimuli depending …

Focused representation of successive task episodes in frontal and parietal cortex

M Kadohisa, K Watanabe, M Kusunoki… - Cerebral …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Complex cognition is dynamic, with each stage of a task requiring new cognitive processes
appropriately linked to stimulus or other content. To investigate control over successive task …

Shared neural activity but distinct neural dynamics for cognitive control in monkey prefrontal and parietal cortex

RK Blackman, DA Crowe, AL DeNicola… - Journal of …, 2023 - Soc Neuroscience
To better understand how prefrontal networks mediate forms of cognitive control disrupted in
schizophrenia, we translated a variant of the AX continuous performance task that measures …

Task-specific modulation of PFC activity for matching-rule governed decision-making

M Parto Dezfouli, M Zarei, C Constantinidis… - Brain Structure and …, 2021 - Springer
Storing information from incoming stimuli in working memory (WM) is essential for decision-
making. The prefrontal cortex (PFC) plays a key role to support this process. Previous …