Neuronal Encoding of Self and Others' Head Rotation in the Macaque Dorsal Prefrontal Cortex.

ABSTRACT: Following gaze is a crucial skill, in primates, for understanding where and at what others are looking, and often requires head rotation. The neural basis underlying head rotation are deemed to overlap with the parieto-frontal attention/gaze-shift network. Here, we show that a set of neurons in monkey's Brodmann area 9/46dr (BA 9/46dr), which is involved in orienting processes and joint attention, becomes active during self head rotation and that the activity of these neurons cannot be accounted for by saccade-related activity (head-rotation neurons). Another set of BA 9/46dr neurons encodes head rotation performed by an observed agent facing the monkey (visually triggered neurons). Among these latter neurons, almost half exhibit the intriguing property of encoding both execution and obser

SUBMITTER: Lanzilotto M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5561028 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature