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ArticleCommunications biology2024

Dynamic layer-specific processing in the prefrontal cortex during working memory.

Jonas Karolis Degutis, Denis Chaimow, Daniel Haenelt, Moataz Assem, John Duncan, John-Dylan Haynes, Nikolaus Weiskopf, Romy Lorenz

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Article in Communications biology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11 citing papers in PubMed.

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  11. Closed-loop fMRI at the mesoscopic scale of columns and layers: Can we do it and why would we want to?Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024
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5 · Who and what money

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8 authors.

Jonas Karolis DegutisDepartment of Psychology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany. j.karolis.degutis@maxplanckschools.de.ORCID 0009-0003-8682-3920
Denis ChaimowDepartment of Neurophysics, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-4532-3084
Daniel HaeneltDepartment of Neurophysics, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-2310-5086
Moataz AssemMRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK.
John DuncanMRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-9695-2764
John-Dylan HaynesDepartment of Psychology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Nikolaus WeiskopfDepartment of Psychology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-5239-1881
Romy LorenzDepartment of Neurophysics, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany. romy.lorenz@tuebingen.mpg.de.

Funding

Klaus Tschira Stiftung (Klaus Tschira Foundation) GSO/KT18Wellcome Trust 209139/Z/17/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) is reliably engaged in working memory (WM) and comprises different cytoarchitectonic layers, yet their functional role in human WM is unclear. Here, participants completed a delayed-match-to-sample task while undergoing functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) at ultra-high resolution. We examine layer-specific activity to manipulations in WM load and motor response. Superficial layers exhibit a preferential response to WM load during the delay and retrieval periods of a WM task, indicating a lamina-specific activation of the frontoparietal network. Multivariate patterns encoding WM load in the superficial layer dynamically change across the three periods of the task. Last, superficial and deep layers are non-differentially involved in the motor response, challenging earlier findings of a preferential deep layer activation. Taken together, our results provide new insights into the functional laminar circuitry of the dlPFC during WM and support a dynamic account of dlPFC coding.

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Magnetic Resonance ImagingMemory, Short-TermPrefrontal CortexAdultBrain MappingDorsolateral Prefrontal CortexFemaleHumansMaleYoung Adult

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PMID39277694
PMCPMC11401931

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