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JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 31, Issue 12, Pages 4583-4592Publisher
SOC NEUROSCIENCE
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5816-10.2011
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- Division of Intramural Research of the National Institute of Mental Health [Z01MH-01092]
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology [21119513]
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science [22700340]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [21119513, 22700340] Funding Source: KAKEN
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behavior-guiding rules and strategies allow monkeys to avoid errors in rarely encountered situations. In the present study, we contrasted strategy-related neuronal activity in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (PFdl) and the orbital prefrontal cortex (PFo) of rhesus monkeys. On each trial of their behavioral task, the monkeys responded to a foveal visual cue by making a saccade to one of two spatial targets. One response required a leftward saccade, the other required a saccade of equal magnitude to the right. The cues instructed the monkeys to follow one of two response strategies: to stay with their most recent successful response or to shift to the alternative response. Neurons in both areas encoded the stay and shift strategies after the cue appeared, but there were three major differences between the PFo and the PFdl: (1) manystrategy-encoding cells in PFdl also encoded the response (left or right), but few, if any, PFo cells did so; (2) strategy selectivity appeared earlier in PFo than in PFdl; and (3) on error trials, PFo neurons encoded the correct strategy-the one that had been cued but not implemented-whereas in PFdl the strategy signals were weak or absent on error trials. These findings indicate that PFo and PFdl both contribute to behaviors guided by abstract response strategies, but do so differently, with PFo encoding a strategy and PFdl encoding a response based on a strategy.
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