Nature Communications (Nov 2017)

History-based action selection bias in posterior parietal cortex

  • Eun Jung Hwang,
  • Jeffrey E. Dahlen,
  • Madan Mukundan,
  • Takaki Komiyama

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01356-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Past outcomes modulate activity in a diverse set of brain regions however their precise influence on decisions is not known. Here the authors show that posterior parietal cortex neurons encode history-related signals between trials and optogenetic inactivation during this epoch disrupts the history dependence of choice.