Nature Communications (Apr 2019)

Macaque dorsal premotor cortex exhibits decision-related activity only when specific stimulus–response associations are known

  • Megan Wang,
  • Christéva Montanède,
  • Chandramouli Chandrasekaran,
  • Diogo Peixoto,
  • Krishna V. Shenoy,
  • John F. Kalaska

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09460-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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It is not clear to what degree activity in dorsal premotor cortex (PMd) reflects perceptual-deliberation versus action-selection aspects of decision-making. Here, the authors report that monkey PMd neurons do not express correlates of the perceptual decision independently of the action choices.