ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2021
Neuronal Activity in the Posterior Cingulate Cortex Signals Environmental Information and Predicts Behavioral Variability during Trapline Foraging.
Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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- Changes in cortical manifold structure following stroke and its relation to behavioral recovery in the male macaque.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Neural correlates of hierarchical predictive processes in autistic adults.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Possible rodent equivalent of the posterior cingulate cortex (area 23) interconnects with multimodal cortical and subcortical regions.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- Replicable patterns of causal information flow between hippocampus and prefrontal cortex during spatial navigation and spatial-verbal memory formation.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2022Article
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Abstract
Animals engage in routine behavior to efficiently navigate their environments. This routine behavior may be influenced by the state of the environment, such as the location and size of rewards. The neural circuits tracking environmental information and how that information impacts decisions to deviate from routines remain unexplored. To investigate the representation of environmental information during routine foraging, we recorded the activity of single neurons in posterior cingulate cortex (PCC) in 2 male monkeys searching through an array of targets in which the location of rewards was unknown. Outside the laboratory, people and animals solve such traveling salesman problems by following routine traplines that connect nearest-neighbor locations. In our task, monkeys also deployed traplining routines; but as the environment became better known, they deviate from them despite the reduction in foraging efficiency. While foraging, PCC neurons tracked environmental information but not reward and predicted variability in the pattern of choices. Together, these findings suggest that PCC may mediate the influence of information on variability in choice behavior.
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