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ArticleNeuron2022

Decision formation in parietal cortex transcends a fixed frame of reference.

NaYoung So, Michael N Shadlen

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Article in Neuron, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. Spatiotemporal Evidence Accumulation Through Saccadic Sampling for Object Recognition.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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  9. A circuit model for transsaccadic space updating and mislocalization.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  14. Transient Oscillations of Neural Firing Rate Associated With Routing of Evidence in a Perceptual Decision.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

2 authors.

NaYoung SoZuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Department of Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA. Electronic address: nayoung.so@gmail.com.
Michael N ShadlenZuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Department of Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA; Kavli Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA. Electronic address: shadlen@columbia.edu.

Funding

Computational and circuit mechanisms of decision makingR01NS113113 · NINDS · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI SHADLEN, MICHAEL NEIL · 2019 to 2023
$2.2M
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNINDS NIH HHS R01 NS113113
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neurons in the lateral intraparietal cortex represent the formation of a decision when it is linked to a specific action, such as an eye movement to a choice target. However, these neurons should be unable to represent a decision that transpires across actions that would disrupt this linkage. We investigated this limitation by simultaneously recording many neurons from two rhesus monkeys. Although intervening actions disrupt the representation by single neurons, the ensemble achieves continuity of the decision process by passing information from currently active neurons to neurons that will become active after the action. In this way, the representation of an evolving decision can be generalized across actions and transcends the frame of reference that specifies the neural response fields. The finding extends previous observations of receptive field remapping, thought to support the stability of perception across eye movements, to the continuity of a thought process, such as a decision.

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Eye MovementsParietal LobeAnimalsMacaca mulattaNeuronsSaccadesdecision-makingframe of referencemulti-neuron recordingparietal cortexpopulation coderemappingsensori-motor coordinationworking memory

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PMID35998631
PMCPMC9639165

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