Nature Communications (Sep 2018)

Anterior-posterior gradient of plasticity in primate prefrontal cortex

  • Mitchell R. Riley,
  • Xue-Lian Qi,
  • Xin Zhou,
  • Christos Constantinidis

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06226-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Studies of the functional organization of the prefrontal cortex have produced contradicting results depending on the task used. Here, Riley and colleagues demonstrate that prefrontal areas are specialized across the anterior posterior axis and that the effects of the task themselves impact more the anterior areas.