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ArticleThe European journal of neuroscience2020

Effects of choice on neuronal activity in anterior cingulate, prelimbic, and infralimbic cortices in the rat: Comparison of serial lever pressing with delayed nonmatching to position.

Miranda J Francoeur, Robert G Mair

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Article in The European journal of neuroscience, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Miranda J FrancoeurDepartment of Psychology, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA.
Robert G MairDepartment of Psychology, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5943-2276
University of New Hampshire · US

Funding

The cognitive thalamus: influence on prefrontal cortex and goal-directedbehaviorR15MH110876 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE · PI MAIR, ROBERT G · 2017 to 2017
$387k
NIMH NIH HHS MH110876NIMH NIH HHS R15 MH110876University of New Hampshire
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The ability to choose between response alternatives based on their likely consequences depends on distributed neural circuits that involve rodent medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC). To understand the effects of choice on mPFC function, we compared the activity of mPFC neurons in rats performing two tasks: dynamic delayed nonmatching to position (dDNMTP), a task with a prefrontal-dependent conditional choice, and serial lever pressing (SLP), a task lacking a choice but trained in the same apparatus with sequences of actions and reinforcements matched to dDNMTP. More neurons exhibited event-related responses during dDNMTP than SLP. Average firing rate during recording sessions was higher during dDNMTP for neurons with event-related responses, but lower for neurons with activity unrelated to behavioural events. Thus, compared to SLP, dDNMTP appears to enhance the activity of neurons that represent behaviourally relevant information and to suppress the activity of neurons that do not. dDNMTP was associated with responses related to preparation and memory delay that were not observed during SLP as well as enhanced responses related to movement and reinforcement. These results provide evidence that choice in the dDNMTP task is associated with adaptive changes in background firing rates and coding properties of mPFC neurons.

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Gyrus CinguliNeuronsAnimalsMemoryPrefrontal CortexRatsReinforcement, Psychologyadaptive codingattentional controldecision-makingexecutive functionmedial prefrontal cortex

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PMID31829477
PMCPMC7211141
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