Nature Communications (Oct 2016)

Cell-type-specific modulation of targets and distractors by dopamine D1 receptors in primate prefrontal cortex

  • Simon N. Jacob,
  • Maximilian Stalter,
  • Andreas Nieder

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13218
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Dopaminergic activity in prefrontal cortex is important for working memory but the neural mechanisms of its action are not known. Jacob and colleagues show that dopamine D1 receptors regulate neural responses to relevant stimuli in a cell-type-specific manner in the presence of distractors.