Decision-making shapes dynamic inter-areal communication within macaque ventral frontal cortex.

ABSTRACT: Macaque ventral frontal cortex is comprised of a set of anatomically heterogeneous and highly interconnected areas. Collectively these areas have been implicated in many higher-level affective and cognitive processes, most notably the adaptive control of decision-making. Despite this appreciation, little is known about how subdivisions of ventral frontal cortex dynamically interact with each other during decision-making. Here we assessed functional interactions between areas by analyzing the activity of thousands of single neurons recorded from eight anatomically defined subdivisions of ventral frontal cortex in macaques performing a visually guided two-choice probabilistic task for different fruit juices. We found that the onset of stimuli and reward delivery globally increased communicat

SUBMITTER: Stoll FM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11257438 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature