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, Barak, Omri, Warden, Melissa R., Wang, Xiao-Jing, Daw, Nathaniel D., Miller, Earl K., Fusi, Stefano
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/102480

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