Prefrontal cortical plasticity during learning of cognitive tasks

It remains unclear whether improvements in one cognitive task transfer to other tasks. Here, the authors show that changes in prefrontal neuronal activation, firing rate, and local field potentials induced during active learning of a working memory task are also evident in a control task.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hua Tang, Mitchell R. Riley, Balbir Singh, Xue-Lian Qi, David T. Blake, Christos Constantinidis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-01-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27695-6
Description
Summary:It remains unclear whether improvements in one cognitive task transfer to other tasks. Here, the authors show that changes in prefrontal neuronal activation, firing rate, and local field potentials induced during active learning of a working memory task are also evident in a control task.
ISSN:2041-1723