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ArticleeLife2021

Interneuron-specific gamma synchronization indexes cue uncertainty and prediction errors in lateral prefrontal and anterior cingulate cortex.

Kianoush Banaie Boroujeni, Paul Tiesinga, Thilo Womelsdorf

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Article in eLife, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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15citing papers in PubMed
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15 citing papers in PubMed, 28 citations in OpenAlex.

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3 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Kianoush Banaie BoroujeniDepartment of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-2323-0648
Paul TiesingaDonders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Thilo WomelsdorfDepartment of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-6921-4187
Radboud University Nijmegen · NLVanderbilt University · USYork University · CA

Funding

Neural Mechanisms of Learning Relevance in Multidimensional EnvironmentsR01MH123687 · NIMH · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI WOMELSDORF, THILO · 2021 to 2025
$3.2M
CIHR MOP 102482NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH123687
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Inhibitory interneurons are believed to realize critical gating functions in cortical circuits, but it has been difficult to ascertain the content of gated information for well-characterized interneurons in primate cortex. Here, we address this question by characterizing putative interneurons in primate prefrontal and anterior cingulate cortex while monkeys engaged in attention demanding reversal learning. We find that subclasses of narrow spiking neurons have a relative suppressive effect on the local circuit indicating they are inhibitory interneurons. One of these interneuron subclasses showed prominent firing rate modulations and (35-45 Hz) gamma synchronous spiking during periods of uncertainty in both, lateral prefrontal cortex (LPFC) and anterior cingulate cortex (ACC). In LPFC, this interneuron subclass activated when the uncertainty of attention cues was resolved during flexible learning, whereas in ACC it fired and gamma-synchronized when outcomes were uncertain and prediction errors were high during learning. Computational modeling of this interneuron-specific gamma band activity in simple circuit motifs suggests it could reflect a soft winner-take-all gating of information having high degree of uncertainty. Together, these findings elucidate an electrophysiologically characterized interneuron subclass in the primate, that forms gamma synchronous networks in two different areas when resolving uncertainty during adaptive goal-directed behavior.

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Gamma RaysGyrus CinguliInterneuronsPrefrontal CortexAnimalsAttentionCells, CulturedCortical SynchronizationCuesLearningMacaca mulattaMalecell typescognitive flexibilityfeature-based attentionneurosciencenonhuman primatesreinforcement learningreversal learningrhesus macaque

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PMID34142661
PMCPMC8248985
OpenAlexW3171842798

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