Dynamic range adaptation in primary motor cortical populations.

ABSTRACT: Neural populations from various sensory regions demonstrate dynamic range adaptation in response to changes in the statistical distribution of their input stimuli. These adaptations help optimize the transmission of information about sensory inputs. Here, we show a similar effect in the firing rates of primary motor cortical cells. We trained monkeys to operate a brain-computer interface in both two- and three-dimensional virtual environments. We found that neurons in primary motor cortex exhibited a change in the amplitude of their directional tuning curves between the two tasks. We then leveraged the simultaneous nature of the recordings to test several hypotheses about the population-based mechanisms driving these changes and found that the results are most consistent with dynamic range

SUBMITTER: Rasmussen RG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5395298 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature