Neural timescales reflect behavioral demands in freely moving rhesus macaques.

ABSTRACT: Previous work has demonstrated remarkably reproducible and consistent hierarchies of neural timescales across cortical areas at rest. The question arises how such stable hierarchies give rise to adaptive behavior that requires flexible adjustment of temporal coding and integration demands. Potentially, this previously found lack of variability in the hierarchical organization of neural timescales could be a reflection of the structure of the laboratory contexts in which they were measured. Indeed, computational work demonstrates the existence of multiple temporal hierarchies within the same anatomical network when the input structure is altered. We posit that unconstrained behavioral environments where relatively little temporal demands are imposed from the experimenter are an ideal test b

SUBMITTER: Manea AMG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10081241 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature