Neural mechanisms of information seeking

K Kobayashi, JW Kable - Neuron, 2024 - cell.com
We ubiquitously seek information to make better decisions. Particularly in the modern age,
when more information is available at our fingertips than ever, the information we choose to …

Recent advances at the interface of neuroscience and artificial neural networks

Y Cohen, TA Engel, C Langdon, GW Lindsay… - Journal of …, 2022 - jneurosci.org
Biological neural networks adapt and learn in diverse behavioral contexts. Artificial neural
networks (ANNs) have exploited biological properties to solve complex problems. However …

Multi-scale neural decoding and analysis

HY Lu, ES Lorenc, H Zhu, J Kilmarx… - Journal of neural …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Complex spatiotemporal neural activity encodes rich information related to
behavior and cognition. Conventional research has focused on neural activity acquired …

[HTML][HTML] Cognition and the single neuron: How cell types construct the dynamic computations of frontal cortex

AJ Christensen, T Ott, A Kepecs - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2022 - Elsevier
Frontal cortex is thought to underlie many advanced cognitive capacities, from self-control to
long term planning. Reflecting these diverse demands, frontal neural activity is notoriously …

Mechanisms of competitive selection: A canonical neural circuit framework

SP Mysore, NB Kothari - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Competitive selection, the transformation of multiple competing sensory inputs and internal
states into a unitary choice, is a fundamental component of animal behavior. Selection …

Abstraction of reward context facilitates relative reward coding in neural populations of the macaque anterior cingulate cortex

JM Chien, JD Wallis, EL Rich - Journal of Neuroscience, 2023 - jneurosci.org
The anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) is believed to be involved in many cognitive processes,
including linking goals to actions and tracking decision-relevant contextual information. ACC …

Frontal circuit specialisations for decision making

LT Hunt - European journal of neuroscience, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
There is widespread consensus that distributed circuits across prefrontal and anterior
cingulate cortex (PFC/ACC) are critical for reward‐based decision making. The circuit …

The representation of decision variables in orbitofrontal cortex is longitudinally stable

M Zhang, A Livi, M Carter, H Schoknecht, A Burkhalter… - Cell reports, 2024 - cell.com
The computation and comparison of subjective values underlying economic choices rely on
the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC). In this area, distinct groups of neurons encode the value of …

The orbital frontal cortex, task structure, and inference.

ED Boorman, PP Witkowski, Y Zhang… - Behavioral …, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
The orbital frontal cortex (OFC) has long been linked to goal-directed, flexible behaviors.
Recent evidence suggests the OFC plays key roles in representing the abstracted structure …

Value and choice as separable and stable representations in orbitofrontal cortex

DL Kimmel, GF Elsayed, JP Cunningham… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Value-based decision-making requires different variables—including offer value, choice,
expected outcome, and recent history—at different times in the decision process …