Nature Communications (Jan 2022)

Prefrontal cortical plasticity during learning of cognitive tasks

  • Hua Tang,
  • Mitchell R. Riley,
  • Balbir Singh,
  • Xue-Lian Qi,
  • David T. Blake,
  • Christos Constantinidis

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27695-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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It remains unclear whether improvements in one cognitive task transfer to other tasks. Here, the authors show that changes in prefrontal neuronal activation, firing rate, and local field potentials induced during active learning of a working memory task are also evident in a control task.