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ArticleiScience2021

Emergence of prefrontal neuron maturation properties by training recurrent neural networks in cognitive tasks.

Yichen Henry Liu, Junda Zhu, Christos Constantinidis, Xin Zhou

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  1. Trajectories of Response Inhibition Development in Adolescence.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  2. The cost of efficiency in flexible neural representations.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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Yichen Henry LiuDepartment of Computer Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235, USA.
Junda ZhuNeuroscience Program, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235, USA.
Christos ConstantinidisNeuroscience Program, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235, USA.
Xin ZhouDepartment of Computer Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235, USA.

Funding

Neurophysiology of Working Memory Maturation in AdolescenceR01MH116675 · NIMH · WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI CONSTANTINIDIS, CHRISTOS, WHITLOW, CHRISTOPHER T · 2018 to 2022
$2.4M
Neurophysiology of cognitive development and response inhibitionR01MH117996 · NIMH · WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI CONSTANTINIDIS, CHRISTOS · 2018 to 2022
$2.1M
NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH116675NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH117996
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Working memory and response inhibition are functions that mature relatively late in life, after adolescence, paralleling the maturation of the prefrontal cortex. The link between behavioral and neural maturation is not obvious, however, making it challenging to understand how neural activity underlies the maturation of cognitive function. To gain insights into the nature of observed changes in prefrontal activity between adolescence and adulthood, we investigated the progressive changes in unit activity of recurrent neural networks as they were trained to perform working memory and response inhibition tasks. These included increased delay period activity during working memory tasks and increased activation in antisaccade tasks. These findings reveal universal properties underlying the neuronal computations behind cognitive tasks and explicate the nature of changes that occur as the result of developmental maturation.

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PMID34667944
PMCPMC8506971

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