Laminar differences in decision-related neural activity in dorsal premotor cortex

Chandramouli Chandrasekaran; Diogo Peixoto; William T. Newsome; Krishna V. Shenoy

doi:10.1038/s41467-017-00715-0

Nature Communications (Sep 2017)

Laminar differences in decision-related neural activity in dorsal premotor cortex

Chandramouli Chandrasekaran,
Diogo Peixoto,
William T. Newsome,
Krishna V. Shenoy

Affiliations

Chandramouli Chandrasekaran: Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
Diogo Peixoto: Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University
William T. Newsome: Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University
Krishna V. Shenoy: Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00715-0
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Dorsal premotor cortex (PMd) is thought to be involved in making somatomotor decisions. Chandrasekaran et al. investigated the temporal response dynamics of PMd neurons across cortical layers and show stronger and earlier decision-related responses in the superficial layers and more action execution-related signals in the deeper layers.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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