ArticleNature communications2025
Dynamic tracking of objects in the macaque dorsomedial frontal cortex.
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- Computational origins of cortical brain circuits for social cognition.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2026Review
- Manifolds in the Medial Premotor Cortex During Switching From Attending to Tapping to a Metronome.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2026Article
- Working Memory of Multi-Object Scenes in Primate Frontal Cortex.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Cognitive Maps in the Prefrontal Cortex.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Review
- Control Principles of Neural Dynamics Revealed by the Neurobiology of Timing.Annual review of neuroscience · 2025Review
- Decoding predicted future states from the brain's "physics engine".Science advances · 2025Article
- Monkeys engage in visual simulation to solve complex problems.Current biology : CB · 2024Article
- Shaping dynamical neural computations using spatiotemporal constraints.Biochemical and biophysical research communications · 2024Review
- Monkeys engage in visual simulation to solve complex problems.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
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- Neural Foundations of Mental Simulation: Future Prediction of Latent Representations on Dynamic Scenes.ArXiv · 2023Article
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Abstract
A central tenet of cognitive neuroscience is that humans build an internal model of the external world and use mental simulation of the model to perform physical inferences. Decades of human experiments have shown that behaviors in many physical reasoning tasks are consistent with predictions from the mental simulation theory. However, evidence for the defining feature of mental simulation - that neural population dynamics reflect simulations of physical states in the environment - is limited. We test the mental simulation hypothesis by combining a naturalistic ball-interception task, large-scale electrophysiology in non-human primates, and recurrent neural network modeling. We find that neurons in the monkeys' dorsomedial frontal cortex (DMFC) represent task-relevant information about the ball position in a multiplexed fashion. At a population level, the activity pattern in DMFC comprises a low-dimensional neural embedding that tracks the ball both when it is visible and invisible, serving as a neural substrate for mental simulation. A systematic comparison of different classes of task-optimized RNN models with the DMFC data provides further evidence supporting the mental simulation hypothesis. Our findings provide evidence that neural dynamics in the frontal cortex are consistent with internal simulation of external states in the environment.
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