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ArticleCerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991)2018

Cell-Type Specific Burst Firing Interacts with Theta and Beta Activity in Prefrontal Cortex During Attention States.

B Voloh, T Womelsdorf

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Article in Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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16citing papers in PubMed
2.2field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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16 citing papers in PubMed, 40 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Dissociating Contributions of Theta and Alpha Oscillations from Aperiodic Neural Activity in Human Visual Working Memory.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026
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  13. Distinct Properties of Layer 3 Pyramidal Neurons from Prefrontal and Parietal Areas of the Monkey Neocortex.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2019
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  14. Parietal low beta rhythm provides a dynamical substrate for a working memory buffer.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019
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  16. An Integrative Model of Effortful Control.Frontiers in systems neuroscience · 2019
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

B VolohDepartment of Biology, Centre for Vision Research, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
T WomelsdorfDepartment of Biology, Centre for Vision Research, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
York University · CA

Funding

CIHR MOP102482
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Population-level theta and beta band activity in anterior cingulate and prefrontal cortices (ACC/PFC) are prominent signatures of self-controlled, adaptive behaviors. But how these rhythmic activities are linked to cell-type specific activity has remained unclear. Here, we suggest such a cell-to-systems level linkage. We found that the rate of burst spiking events is enhanced particularly during attention states and that attention-specific burst spikes have a unique temporal relationship to local theta and beta band population-level activities. For the 5-10 Hz theta frequency range, bursts coincided with transient increases of local theta power relative to nonbursts, particularly for bursts of putative interneurons. For the 16-30 Hz beta frequency, bursts of putative interneurons phase synchronized stronger than nonbursts, and were associated with larger beta power modulation. In contrast, burst of putative pyramidal cells showed similar beta power modulation as nonbursts, but were accompanied by stronger beta power only when they occurred early in the beta cycle. These findings suggest that in the ACC/PFC during attention states, mechanisms underlying burst firing are intimately linked to narrow band population-level activities, providing a cell-type specific window into rhythmic inhibitory gating and the emergence of rhythmically coherent network states during goal directed behavior.

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Action PotentialsBeta RhythmTheta RhythmAnimalsAttentionCortical SynchronizationGyrus CinguliMacacaNeuronsPrefrontal Cortex

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PMID29136106
PMCPMC6215473
OpenAlexW2949092172

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