Dorsal Premotor Cortex Neurons Signal the Level of Choice Difficulty during Logical Decisions

Valentina Mione; Emiliano Brunamonti; Pierpaolo Pani; Aldo Genovesio; Stefano Ferraina

doi:10.1016/j.celrep.2020.107961

Dorsal Premotor Cortex Neurons Signal the Level of Choice Difficulty during Logical Decisions

Valentina Mione
, Emiliano Brunamonti
, Pierpaolo Pani
, Aldo Genovesio
, Stefano Ferraina

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Abstract

Mione et al. show that the degree of discriminability between pairs of rank-ordered items stored in memory (a mental map) modulates neuronal activity in premotor cortex of monkeys with mechanisms comparable with those observed in perceptual decision-making tasks.

Original language	English
Article number	107961
Journal	Cell Reports
Volume	32
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2020.107961
Publication status	Published - 28 Jul 2020
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

dorsal premotor
inferential reasoning
logical decision-making
mental schema
monkey
population coding
serial order learning
transitive inference

Access to Document

10.1016/j.celrep.2020.107961

Cite this

@article{fdb4d66ae7364a62be047a14fb67eb87,

title = "Dorsal Premotor Cortex Neurons Signal the Level of Choice Difficulty during Logical Decisions",

abstract = "Mione et al. show that the degree of discriminability between pairs of rank-ordered items stored in memory (a mental map) modulates neuronal activity in premotor cortex of monkeys with mechanisms comparable with those observed in perceptual decision-making tasks.",

keywords = "dorsal premotor, inferential reasoning, logical decision-making, mental schema, monkey, population coding, serial order learning, transitive inference",

author = "Valentina Mione and Emiliano Brunamonti and Pierpaolo Pani and Aldo Genovesio and Stefano Ferraina",

note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020 The Authors",

year = "2020",

month = jul,

day = "28",

doi = "10.1016/j.celrep.2020.107961",

language = "English",

volume = "32",

journal = "Cell Reports",

issn = "2211-1247",

publisher = "Elsevier BV",

number = "4",

}

TY - JOUR

T1 - Dorsal Premotor Cortex Neurons Signal the Level of Choice Difficulty during Logical Decisions

AU - Mione, Valentina

AU - Brunamonti, Emiliano

AU - Pani, Pierpaolo

AU - Genovesio, Aldo

AU - Ferraina, Stefano

PY - 2020/7/28

Y1 - 2020/7/28

N2 - Mione et al. show that the degree of discriminability between pairs of rank-ordered items stored in memory (a mental map) modulates neuronal activity in premotor cortex of monkeys with mechanisms comparable with those observed in perceptual decision-making tasks.

AB - Mione et al. show that the degree of discriminability between pairs of rank-ordered items stored in memory (a mental map) modulates neuronal activity in premotor cortex of monkeys with mechanisms comparable with those observed in perceptual decision-making tasks.

KW - dorsal premotor

KW - inferential reasoning

KW - logical decision-making

KW - mental schema

KW - monkey

KW - population coding

KW - serial order learning

KW - transitive inference

UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85088528592

U2 - 10.1016/j.celrep.2020.107961

DO - 10.1016/j.celrep.2020.107961

M3 - Article

SN - 2211-1247

VL - 32

JO - Cell Reports

JF - Cell Reports

IS - 4

M1 - 107961

ER -

Dorsal Premotor Cortex Neurons Signal the Level of Choice Difficulty during Logical Decisions

Abstract

Keywords

Access to Document

Other files and links

Fingerprint

Cite this