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ArticleCerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991)2021

Drifts in Prefrontal and Parietal Neuronal Activity Influence Working Memory Judgments.

Sihai Li, Christos Constantinidis, Xue-Lian Qi

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Article in Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Sihai LiDepartment of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0643-2325
Christos ConstantinidisDepartment of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA.
Xue-Lian QiDepartment of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA.
Wake Forest University · USVanderbilt University · US

Funding

NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF TRAINING IN VISUAL COGNITIVE TASKSR01EY017077 · NEI · WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI CHRISTOS CONSTANTINIDIS · 2006 to 2026
$6.0M
Neurophysiology of Working Memory Maturation in AdolescenceR01MH116675 · NIMH · WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI CONSTANTINIDIS, CHRISTOS, WHITLOW, CHRISTOPHER T · 2018 to 2022
$2.4M
CORTICAL CIRCUIT BASIS OF VISUAL SPATIAL PROCESSINGR01EY016773 · NEI · WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI CONSTANTINIDIS, CHRISTOS · 2008 to 2017
$2.3M
NEI NIH HHS R01 EY016773NEI NIH HHS R01 EY017077NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH116675
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) plays a critical role in spatial working memory and its activity predicts behavioral responses in delayed response tasks. Here, we addressed if this predictive ability extends to other working memory tasks and if it is present in other brain areas. We trained monkeys to remember the location of a stimulus and determine whether a second stimulus appeared at the same location or not. Neurophysiological recordings were performed in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and posterior parietal cortex (PPC). We hypothesized that random drifts causing the peak activity of the network to move away from the first stimulus location and toward the location of the second stimulus would result in categorical errors. Indeed, for both areas, in nonmatching trials, when the first stimulus appeared in a neuron's preferred location, the neuron showed significantly higher firing rates in correct than in error trials; and vice versa, when the first stimulus appeared at a nonpreferred location, activity in error trials was higher than in correct. The results indicate that the activity of both dlPFC and PPC neurons is predictive of categorical judgments of information maintained in working memory, and neuronal firing rate deviations are revealing of the contents of working memory.

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AnimalsElectrophysiological PhenomenaJudgmentMacaca mulattaMagnetic Resonance ImagingMaleMemory, Short-TermMental RecallNeuronsParietal LobePhotic StimulationPrefrontal CortexPsychomotor PerformanceReaction Timemonkeyneurophysiologyparietal cortexprefrontal cortexworking memory

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PMID33822919
PMCPMC8258436
OpenAlexW3141572503

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