Article ; Online: Minimally dependent activity subspaces for working memory and motor preparation in the lateral prefrontal cortex
eLife, Vol
2020 Volume 9
Abstract: The lateral prefrontal cortex is involved in the integration of multiple types of information, including working memory and motor preparation. However, it is not known how downstream regions can extract one type of information without interference from ... ...
| Abstract | The lateral prefrontal cortex is involved in the integration of multiple types of information, including working memory and motor preparation. However, it is not known how downstream regions can extract one type of information without interference from the others present in the network. Here, we show that the lateral prefrontal cortex of non-human primates contains two minimally dependent low-dimensional subspaces: one that encodes working memory information, and another that encodes motor preparation information. These subspaces capture all the information about the target in the delay periods, and the information in both subspaces is reduced in error trials. A single population of neurons with mixed selectivity forms both subspaces, but the information is kept largely independent from each other. A bump attractor model with divisive normalization replicates the properties of the neural data. These results provide new insights into neural processing in prefrontal regions. |
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| Keywords | working memory ; motor preparation ; lateral prefrontal cortex ; Medicine ; R ; Science ; Q ; Biology (General) ; QH301-705.5 |
| Language | English |
| Publishing date | 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z |
| Publisher | eLife Sciences Publications Ltd |
| Document type | Article ; Online |
| Database | BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection) |
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