Significant experimental, computational, and theoretical work has identified rich structure
within the coordinated activity of interconnected neural populations. An emerging challenge …

Cognition can be defined as computation over meaningful representations in the brain to
produce adaptive behaviour. There are two views on the relationship between cognition and …

Animals readily execute learned behaviors in a consistent manner over long periods of time,
and yet no equally stable neural correlate has been demonstrated. How does the cortex …

The motor cortex controls skilled arm movement by sending temporal patterns of activity to
lower motor centres. Local cortical dynamics are thought to shape these patterns throughout …

Short-term memories link events separated in time, such as past sensation and future
actions. Short-term memories are correlated with slow neural dynamics, including selective …

Realizing high performance of ordinary robots is one of the core problems in robotic
research. Improving the performance of ordinary robots usually relies on the collaborative …

Highlights•Preparatory activity is a neural correlate of motor planning.•Multiple brain areas
cooperate to maintain preparatory activity.•Preparatory activity sets network activity to an …

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 …

Advances in artificial intelligence are stimulating interest in neuroscience. However, most
attention is given to discrete tasks with simple action spaces, such as board games and …

Neural populations can change the computation they perform on very short timescales.
Although such flexibility is common, the underlying computational strategies at the …