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ArticleFrontiers in neural circuits2012

Closing the loop in primate prefrontal cortex: inter-laminar processing.

Ioan Opris, Joshua L Fuqua, Peter F Huettl, Greg A Gerhardt, Theodore W Berger, Robert E Hampson, Sam A Deadwyler

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Article in Frontiers in neural circuits, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 53 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Ioan OprisDepartment of Physiology and Pharmacology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine Winston-Salem, NC, USA.
Joshua L Fuqua
Peter F Huettl
Greg A Gerhardt
Theodore W Berger
Robert E Hampson
Sam A Deadwyler
Wake Forest University · USUniversity of Kentucky · USUniversity of Southern California · US

Funding

TROPANE EVALUATION AND GENERAL SCIENTIFIC SERVICES COREP50DA006634 · NIDA · WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI PORRINO, LINDA J. · 1991 to 2019
$30.8M
Neuronal Analysis of Cocaine Effects on CognitionR01DA023573 · NIDA · WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI DEADWYLER, SAMUEL A. · 2007 to 2011
$1.6M
Neuroimaging Correlates of Cocaine Reinforcement for Cognitive PerformanceR01DA026487 · NIDA · WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI DEADWYLER, SAMUEL A. · 2010 to 2014
$1.6M
NIDA NIH HHS P50 DA006634NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA023573NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA026487
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Prefrontal cortical (PFC) activity in the primate brain emerging from minicolumnar microcircuits plays a critical role in cognitive processes dealing with executive control of behavior. However, the specific operations of columnar laminar processing in prefrontal cortex (PFC) are not completely understood. Here we show via implementation of unique microanatomical recording and stimulating arrays, that minicolumns in PFC are involved in the executive control of behavior in rhesus macaque nonhuman primates (NHPs) performing a delayed-match-to-sample (DMS) task. PFC neurons demonstrate functional interactions between pairs of putative pyramidal cells within specified cortical layers via anatomically oriented minicolumns. Results reveal target-specific, spatially tuned firing between inter-laminar (layer 2/3 and layer 5) pairs of neurons participating in the gating of information during the decision making phase of the task with differential correlations between activity in layer 2/3 and layer 5 in the integration of spatial vs. object-specific information for correct task performance. Such inter-laminar processing was exploited by the interfacing of an online model which delivered stimulation to layer 5 locations in a pattern associated with successful performance thereby closing the columnar loop externally in a manner that mimicked normal processing in the same task. These unique technologies demonstrate that PFC neurons encode and process information via minicolumns which provides a closed loop form of "executive function," hence disruption of such inter-laminar processing could form the bases for cognitive dysfunction in primate brain.

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columnar correlates of target selectioncolumnar correlates of task difficultyinter-laminar correlated firingnonhuman primatesprefrontal cortexspatial vs. object tuning

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PMID23189041
PMCPMC3504312
OpenAlexW2017295386

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