The importance of mixed selectivity in complex cognitive tasks

Single-neuron activity in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) is tuned to mixtures of multiple task-related aspects. Such mixed selectivity is highly heterogeneous, seemingly disordered and therefore difficult to interpret. We analysed the neural activity recorded in monkeys during an object sequence memory...

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Main Authors: Rigotti, Mattia (Author), Barak, Omri (Author), Warden, Melissa R. (Contributor), Wang, Xiao-Jing (Author), Daw, Nathaniel D. (Author), Miller, Earl K. (Contributor), Fusi, Stefano (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (Contributor), Picower Institute for Learning and Memory (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group, 2016-05-13T16:48:40Z.
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