期刊
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
卷 37, 期 25, 页码 6098-6112出版社
SOC NEUROSCIENCE
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3903-16.2017
关键词
macaque monkey; parietal cortex; persistent activity; prefrontal cortex; topological organization; working memory
资金
- National Institutes of Health [R01EY019041, R01MH092927]
- National Science Foundation [NCS 1631571]
Persistent activity within the frontoparietal network is consistently observed during tasks that require working memory. However, the neural circuit mechanisms underlying persistent neuronal encoding within this network remain unresolved. Here, we ask how neural circuits support persistent activity by examining population recordings from posterior parietal (PPC) and prefrontal (PFC) cortices in two male monkeys that performed spatial and motion direction-based tasks that required working memory. While spatially selective persistent activity was observed in both areas, robust selective persistent activity for motion direction was only observed in PFC. Crucially, we find that this difference between mnemonic encoding in PPC and PFC is associated with the presence of functional clustering: PPC and PFC neurons up to similar to 700 mu m apart preferred similar spatial locations, and PFC neurons up to similar to 700 mu m apart preferred similar motion directions. In contrast, motion-direction tuning similarity between nearby PPC neurons was much weaker and decayed rapidly beyond similar to 200 mu m. We also observed a similar association between persistent activity and functional clustering in trained recurrent neural network models embedded with a columnar topology. These results suggest that functional clustering facilitates mnemonic encoding of sensory information.
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