Nature Communications (Jan 2018)

Fluid network dynamics in the prefrontal cortex during multiple strategy switching

  • Hugo Malagon-Vina,
  • Stephane Ciocchi,
  • Johannes Passecker,
  • Georg Dorffner,
  • Thomas Klausberger

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02764-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Population activity of neurons in the prefrontal cortex has been shown to represent cognitive strategy and rules. Here the authors report that when the same rule is repeated on multiple occasions in the task, it is accompanied each time by a new prefrontal firing rate state.