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ArticlebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology2023

Specialized structure of neural population codes in parietal cortex outputs.

Houman Safaai, Alice Y Wang, Shinichiro Kira, Simone Blanco Malerba, Stefano Panzeri, Christopher D Harvey

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Article in bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 3 countries.

Houman SafaaiDepartment of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.
Alice Y WangDepartment of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.
Shinichiro KiraDepartment of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.
Simone Blanco MalerbaDepartment of Excellence for Neural Information Processing, Center for Molecular Neurobiology (ZMNH), University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Hamburg, Germany.
Stefano PanzeriNeural Computation Laboratory, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova, Italy.
Christopher D HarveyDepartment of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.
Harvard University · USUniversität Hamburg · DE

Funding

Toward mechanistic cognitive neuroscience: cell types, connectivity, and patterned perturbationsDP1MH125776 · NIMH · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI HARVEY, CHRISTOPHER D · 2020 to 2024
$5.9M
Studying perceptual decision-making across cortex by combining population imaging, connectomics, and computational modelingR01NS108410 · NINDS · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI HARVEY, CHRISTOPHER D, LEE, WEI-CHUNG ALLEN · 2018 to 2022
$5.7M
Parietal Cortex Networks for Sensorimotor Processing During NavigationR01NS089521 · NINDS · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI HARVEY, CHRISTOPHER D · 2015 to 2024
$4.5M
NIMH NIH HHS DP1 MH125776NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS089521NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS108410
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Do cortical neurons that send axonal projections to the same target area form specialized population codes for transmitting information? We used calcium imaging in mouse posterior parietal cortex (PPC), retrograde labeling, and statistical multivariate models to address this question during a delayed match-to-sample task. We found that PPC broadcasts sensory, choice, and locomotion signals widely, but sensory information is enriched in the output to anterior cingulate cortex. Neurons projecting to the same area have elevated pairwise activity correlations. These correlations are structured as information-limiting and information-enhancing interaction networks that collectively enhance information levels. This network structure is unique to sub-populations projecting to the same target and strikingly absent in surrounding neural populations with unidentified projections. Furthermore, this structure is only present when mice make correct, but not incorrect, behavioral choices. Therefore, cortical neurons comprising an output pathway form uniquely structured population codes that enhance information transmission to guide accurate behavior.

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