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Prefrontal representation of stimulus attributes during delay tasks. I. Unit activity in cross-temporal integration of sensory and sensory-motor information.

Abstract：

:The activity of 294 single units was recorded from the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex of monkeys performing two visual discrimination tasks with delayed response. One task, delayed matching-to-sample (DMS), required memory of a colored cue for later (18 s) matching and choice of color; the cue did not connote the location of the delayed response. The other task, delayed conditional position discrimination (DCPD), required memory of a colored cue for later (18 s) choice of spatial response; the cue did connote delayed-response location. All 4 cues (red and green in DMS, yellow and blue in DCPD) were isoluminous and appeared in identical location at trial start. Differential unit reactions to the two DCPD cues were more common than those to the two DMS cues (samples). During the delay period, 15% of all units showed, in one task or the other, differential discharge depending on the cue. In DCPD, a large proportion of the units showing direction-related activity at the time of motor response also reacted with a firing frequency change to one or both (spatially identical) trial-initiating cues. Some units showed coherence of cue-related and response-related changes in accord with the behavioral association between color and direction of response (i.e., yellow-right, blue-left). The reactivity of some units was correlated with the behavioral performance of the tasks in terms of correctness or incorrectness of response. The results indicate that, during visual delay tasks, neurons in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex may process both spatial and non-spatial information. Because of their protracted differential discharge between cue and response (i.e., during the delay), some units seem involved in the transfer of sensory information across time. These findings suggest the role of prefrontal neurons in the representation of multiple attributes of sensory stimuli, including their associated motor connotations, and the overlap of the cortical representations of different attributes. They are also consistent with the role of the prefrontal cortex in the cross-temporal mediation of sensory-motor contingencies and, therefore, the temporal organization of behavior.

journal_name

Brain Res

journal_title

Brain research

authors

Quintana J,Yajeya J,Fuster JM

doi

10.1016/0006-8993(88)90436-2

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1988-12-06 00:00:00

pages

211-21

issue

eissn

0006-8993

issn

1872-6240

pii

0006-8993(88)90436-2

journal_volume

474

pub_type

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Prefrontal representation of stimulus attributes during delay tasks. I. Unit activity in cross-temporal integration of sensory and sensory-motor information.