Premotor cortex articles within Nature

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• Article | 20 January 2021

  Decoding and perturbing decision states in real time

  In macaque motor cortex, moment-to-moment fluctuations in neurally derived decision variables are tightly linked to decision state and predict behavioural choices with better accuracy than condition-averaged decision variables or the visual stimulus alone, and can be used to distinguish between different models of decision making.

  • Diogo Peixoto
  • , Jessica R. Verhein
  •  & William T. Newsome

• Article | 06 February 2019

  Discrete attractor dynamics underlies persistent activity in the frontal cortex

  Neuronal networks involving the frontal cortex follow discrete attractor dynamics to maintain short-term memories over times of seconds, much longer than the time-constant of individual neurons.

  • Hidehiko K. Inagaki
  • , Lorenzo Fontolan
  •  & Karel Svoboda

• Article | 03 May 2017

  Maintenance of persistent activity in a frontal thalamocortical loop

  Thalamic neurons show selective persistent activity that predicts movement direction, and their photoinhibition decreases activity in the anterior lateral motor cortex, and vice versa, suggesting that persistent activity requires reciprocal excitation in a thalamocortical loop.

  • Zengcai V. Guo
  • , Hidehiko K. Inagaki
  •  & Karel Svoboda

• Article | 13 April 2016

  Robust neuronal dynamics in premotor cortex during motor planning

  In mouse cortex, ‘preparatory’ activity that encodes future movements is remarkably robust against large-scale perturbations; this robustness is achieved by corrective signals from unperturbed parts of the network.

  • Nuo Li
  • , Kayvon Daie
  •  & Shaul Druckmann

• Article | 30 November 2015

  Growth and splitting of neural sequences in songbird vocal development

  Neural sequences recorded from the vocal premotor area HVC in juvenile birds learning song ‘syllables’ show ‘prototype’ syllables forming early, with multiple new highly divergent neural sequences emerging from this precursor syllable as learning progresses.

  • Tatsuo S. Okubo
  • , Emily L. Mackevicius
  •  & Michale S. Fee

• Article | 25 February 2015

  A motor cortex circuit for motor planning and movement

  During movement preparation, motor cortical neuronal subpopulations that project to downstream motor areas are more selective for the direction of upcoming movement than those that project to other cortical targets, especially immediately before movement, emphasizing the need to interpret complex neuronal responses measured during behaviour in the context of hierarchically organized cortical circuits.

  • Nuo Li
  • , Tsai-Wen Chen
  •  & Karel Svoboda