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ArticleCell reports2022

Movement-specific signaling is differentially distributed across motor cortex layer 5 projection neuron classes.

Stephen P Currie, Julian J Ammer, Brian Premchand, Joshua Dacre, Yufei Wu, Constantinos Eleftheriou, Matt Colligan, Thomas Clarke, Leah Mitchell, A Aldo Faisal and 2 more

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Article in Cell reports, 2022. 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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3 · Its place in the literature

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15 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Diversity in Whisking-Related Dynamics of Layer 5 Neurons in the Motor Cortex.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026
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  8. Learning and Control in Motor Cortex across Cell Types and Scales.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024
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  14. Layer 5 Intratelencephalic Neurons in the Motor Cortex Stably Encode Skilled Movement.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors.

Stephen P CurrieCentre for Discovery Brain Sciences and Patrick Wild Centre, Edinburgh Medical School: Biomedical Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Hugh Robson Building, George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9XD, UK.
Julian J AmmerCentre for Discovery Brain Sciences and Patrick Wild Centre, Edinburgh Medical School: Biomedical Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Hugh Robson Building, George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9XD, UK.
Brian PremchandCentre for Discovery Brain Sciences and Patrick Wild Centre, Edinburgh Medical School: Biomedical Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Hugh Robson Building, George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9XD, UK.
Joshua DacreCentre for Discovery Brain Sciences and Patrick Wild Centre, Edinburgh Medical School: Biomedical Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Hugh Robson Building, George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9XD, UK.
Yufei WuDepartment of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK.
Constantinos EleftheriouCentre for Discovery Brain Sciences and Patrick Wild Centre, Edinburgh Medical School: Biomedical Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Hugh Robson Building, George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9XD, UK; Simons Initiative for the Developing Brain, Edinburgh Medical School: Biomedical Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9XD, UK.
Matt ColliganCentre for Discovery Brain Sciences and Patrick Wild Centre, Edinburgh Medical School: Biomedical Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Hugh Robson Building, George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9XD, UK.
Thomas ClarkeCentre for Discovery Brain Sciences and Patrick Wild Centre, Edinburgh Medical School: Biomedical Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Hugh Robson Building, George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9XD, UK.
Leah MitchellCentre for Discovery Brain Sciences and Patrick Wild Centre, Edinburgh Medical School: Biomedical Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Hugh Robson Building, George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9XD, UK.
A Aldo FaisalDepartment of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK; Department of Computing, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK; MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences, London W12 0NN, UK.
Matthias H HennigInstitute for Adaptive and Neural Computation, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, UK.
Ian DuguidCentre for Discovery Brain Sciences and Patrick Wild Centre, Edinburgh Medical School: Biomedical Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Hugh Robson Building, George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9XD, UK; Simons Initiative for the Developing Brain, Edinburgh Medical School: Biomedical Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9XD, UK. Electronic address: ian.duguid@ed.ac.uk.

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/R018537/1Medical Research Council MR/W004577/1Wellcome Trust 110131/Z/15/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Motor cortex generates descending output necessary for executing a wide range of limb movements. Although movement-related activity has been described throughout motor cortex, the spatiotemporal organization of movement-specific signaling in deep layers remains largely unknown. Here we record layer 5B population dynamics in the caudal forelimb area of motor cortex while mice perform a forelimb push/pull task and find that most neurons show movement-invariant responses, with a minority displaying movement specificity. Using cell-type-specific imaging, we identify that invariant responses dominate pyramidal tract (PT) neuron activity, with a small subpopulation representing movement type, whereas a larger proportion of intratelencephalic (IT) neurons display movement-type-specific signaling. The proportion of IT neurons decoding movement-type peaks prior to movement initiation, whereas for PT neurons, this occurs during movement execution. Our data suggest that layer 5B population dynamics largely reflect movement-invariant signaling, with information related to movement-type being routed through relatively small, distributed subpopulations of projection neurons.

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Motor CortexAnimalsForelimbMiceMovementNeuronsPyramidal Tractsaction-specificcalcium imagingcortical silencingCP: Neurosciencedecodinglayer 5Bmotor behaviormotor controlmotor cortexneural codingobject manipulation

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PMID35545038
PMCPMC9620742

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