Dynamic tracking of objects in the macaque dorsomedial frontal cortex.

ABSTRACT: A central tenet of cognitive neuroscience is that humans build an internal model of the external world and use mental simulation of the model to perform physical inferences. Decades of human experiments have shown that behaviors in many physical reasoning tasks are consistent with predictions from the mental simulation theory. However, evidence for the defining feature of mental simulation - that neural population dynamics reflect simulations of physical states in the environment - is limited. We test the mental simulation hypothesis by combining a naturalistic ball-interception task, large-scale electrophysiology in non-human primates, and recurrent neural network modeling. We find that neurons in the monkeys' dorsomedial frontal cortex (DMFC) represent task-relevant information about the

SUBMITTER: Rajalingham R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11696028 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature