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Trach and McDougle show that motor responses can form part of structured, graph-like memory representations.

Grouping sensory events into chunks is an efficient strategy to integrate information across long sequences such as speech, music, and complex movemen…

Using high-density electrophysiological recordings, how internally generated cell assemblies are updated by action plans to meet external goals is explored.

The brain uses different valuation schemes across contexts. Elston and Wallis show this is supported by hippocampal encoding of context that is broadcast to prefrontal value subcircuits via theta sync...

Animals capable of complex behaviors tend to have more distinct brain areas than simpler organisms, and artificial networks that perform many tasks tend to self-organize into modules (1-3). This sugge...

Nanocourse: Approaches to Study Neural Circuits This course was taught by Anita Autry, Tiago Gonçalves, and Luke Sjulson at Albert Einstein College of Medici...

Economic decisions often require weighing multiple dimensions, or attributes. The orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) is thought to be important for computing the integrated value of an option from its attribu...

Intrinsic neural timescales characterize the dynamics of endogenous fluctuations in neural activity.

Flexibly adjusting our behavioral strategies based on the environmental context is critical to maxim

The anterior cingulate cortex gyrus plays an important role in social cognition. Here authors show that, in a goal-directed task without social reasoning, these neurons differentiate conspecific ident...

The value of visual stimuli guides learning, decision-making and motivation. Although stimulus value

Hedonic hotspots are brain subregions that causally amplify the hedonic impact of palatable tastes,

Completing sequences is a part of everyday life. Many such sequences can be considered abstract - th

Abstract. In value-based decisions, there are frequently multiple attributes, such as cost, quality, or quantity, that contribute to the overall goodness of an option. Because one option may not be be...

The functional properties of a network depend on its connectivity, which includes the strength of it

In dynamic environments with volatile rewards the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) is believed to det

In schizophrenia, layer 3 pyramidal neurons (L3PNs) in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) ar

Large-scale recordings of neural activity over broad anatomical areas with high spatial and temporal

Serial dependence describes the phenomenon that current object representations are attracted to prev

The role the prefrontal cortex plays in working memory remains controversial. Here, we tested the hy

Charlton and Goris developed a new perceptual decision-making task for macaque monkeys and found that prefrontal circuits involved in action selection are also used for the deliberation of abstract pr...

To mitigate capacity limits of working memory, people allocate resources according to the relevance

Neurons in the primate lateral prefrontal cortex (LPFC) flexibly adapt their activity to support a w

Perseveration -- repeating one choice when others would generate larger rewards -- is a common behav

Human working memory serves as a key gateway to the formation of lasting memories in long-term memor

Optogenetics allows manipulation of neural circuits in vivo with high spatial and temporal precision

How do human brains represent tasks of varying structure? The lateral prefrontal cortex (lPFC) flexi

In everyday tasks, our focus of attention shifts seamlessly between contents in the sensory environm

Humans are often tempted by small, but immediate rewards that seem more attractive than a larger, de

While distributed cortical areas represent working memory contents, their necessity for memory maint

Cognition is remarkably flexible; we are able to rapidly learn and perform many different tasks. The

Scientific Reports - Behavioral fluctuation reflecting theta-rhythmic activation of sequential working memory