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ArticleCell reports2022

Visuomotor learning promotes visually evoked activity in the medial prefrontal cortex.

Andrew J Peters, Andrada-Maria Marica, Julie M J Fabre, Kenneth D Harris, Matteo Carandini

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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 12 papers.

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12citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 25 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Andrew J PetersUCL Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London, London, UK. Electronic address: peters.andrew.j@gmail.com.
Andrada-Maria MaricaUCL Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London, London, UK.
Julie M J FabreUCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, UK.
Kenneth D HarrisUCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, UK.
Matteo CarandiniUCL Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London, London, UK. Electronic address: m.carandini@ucl.ac.uk.
National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery · GBUniversity College London · GBThe London College · GB

Funding

Wellcome Trust 205093Wellcome Trust 205093/Z/16/ZWellcome Trust 223144
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) is necessary for executing many learned associations between stimuli and movement. It is unclear, however, how activity in the mPFC evolves across learning, and how this activity correlates with sensory stimuli and the learned movements they evoke. To address these questions, we record cortical activity with widefield calcium imaging while mice learned to associate a visual stimulus with a forelimb movement. After learning, the mPFC shows stimulus-evoked activity both during task performance and during passive viewing, when the stimulus evokes no action. This stimulus-evoked activity closely tracks behavioral performance across training, with both exhibiting a marked increase between days when mice first learn the task, followed by a steady increase with further training. Electrophysiological recordings localized this activity to the secondary motor and anterior cingulate cortex. We conclude that learning a visuomotor task promotes a route for visual information to reach the prefrontal cortex.

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CalciumLearningAnimalsCytoplasmMiceMovementPrefrontal CortexCalciumcortexCP: NeurosciencelearningmPFCsensorimotorvisual

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PMID36261004
PMCPMC9631115
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