期刊
NEURON
卷 80, 期 6, 页码 1532-1543出版社
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2013.09.023
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资金
- Spanish grants [FIS 2012-33388, FIS 2009-09433]
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Direccion General de Asuntos del Personal Academic de la Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
- Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia
Decisions emerge from the concerted activity of neuronal populations distributed across brain circuits. However, the analytical tools best suited to decode decision signals from neuronal populations remain unknown. Here we show that knowledge of correlated variability between pairs of cortical neurons allows perfect decoding of decisions from population firing rates. We recorded pairs of neurons from secondary somatosensory (S2) and pre-motor (PM) cortices while monkeys reported the presence or absence of a tactile stimulus. We found that while populations of S2 and sensory-like PM neurons are only partially correlated with behavior, those PM neurons active during a delay period preceding the motor report predict unequivocally the animal's decision report. Thus, a population rate code that optimally reveals a subject's perceptual decisions can be implemented just by knowing the correlations of PM neurons representing decision variables.
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