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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2022

Neuronal population dynamics during motor plan cancellation in nonhuman primates.

Pierpaolo Pani, Margherita Giamundo, Franco Giarrocco, Valentina Mione, Roberto Fontana, Emiliano Brunamonti, Maurizio Mattia, Stefano Ferraina

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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8 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Pierpaolo PaniDepartment of Physiology and Pharmacology, Sapienza University, 00185 Rome, Italy.
Margherita GiamundoDepartment of Physiology and Pharmacology, Sapienza University, 00185 Rome, Italy.
Franco GiarroccoDepartment of Physiology and Pharmacology, Sapienza University, 00185 Rome, Italy.
Valentina MioneDepartment of Physiology and Pharmacology, Sapienza University, 00185 Rome, Italy.
Roberto FontanaDepartment of Physiology and Pharmacology, Sapienza University, 00185 Rome, Italy.
Emiliano BrunamontiDepartment of Physiology and Pharmacology, Sapienza University, 00185 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-5119-6950
Maurizio MattiaNational Center for Radiation Protection and Computational Physics, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, 00169 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-2356-4509
Stefano FerrainaDepartment of Physiology and Pharmacology, Sapienza University, 00185 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-6100-2438
Sapienza University of Rome · ITIstituto Superiore di Sanità · IT

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To understand the cortical neuronal dynamics behind movement generation and control, most studies have focused on tasks where actions were planned and then executed using different instances of visuomotor transformations. However, to fully understand the dynamics related to movement control, one must also study how movements are actively inhibited. Inhibition, indeed, represents the first level of control both when different alternatives are available and only one solution could be adopted and when it is necessary to maintain the current position. We recorded neuronal activity from a multielectrode array in the dorsal premotor cortex (PMd) of monkeys performing a countermanding reaching task that requires, in a subset of trials, them to cancel a planned movement before its onset. In the analysis of the neuronal state space of PMd, we found a subspace in which activities conveying temporal information were confined during active inhibition and position holding. Movement execution required activities to escape from this subspace toward an orthogonal subspace and, furthermore, surpass a threshold associated with the maturation of the motor plan. These results revealed further details in the neuronal dynamics underlying movement control, extending the hypothesis that neuronal computation confined in an "output-null" subspace does not produce movements.

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Motor ActivityMotor CortexNeuronsPsychomotor PerformanceAnimalsMacaca mulattainhibitionmonkeymotor controlneuronal dynamicspremotor cortex

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