Journal
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 38, Issue 44, Pages 9402-9413Publisher
SOC NEUROSCIENCE
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1671-18.2018
Keywords
motor control; active sensing; action selection; action timing; decision-making; frontal cortex
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Funding
- Novo Nordisk Foundation
- NYU Provost's Postdoctoral Fellowship
- NIDCD K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award [DC015543-01A1]
- NIH HHS/USA [F32 MH098572/MH/NIMH]
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute/USA
- Uehara Memorial Foundation
- Fundacao Bial [127/08]
- Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia [SFRH/BPD/46314/2008]
- JSPS KAKENHI Grant [JP18J01678, JP17K12703]
- Program of Shanghai Academic/Technology Research Leader [15XD1503000]
- Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality [15JC1400104]
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [SFRH/BPD/46314/2008] Funding Source: FCT
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Motor and premotor cortices are crucial for the control of movements. However, we still know little about how these areas contribute to higher-order motor control, such as deciding which movements to make and when to make them. Here we focus on rodent studies and review recent findings, which suggest that-in addition to motor control-neurons in motor cortices play a role in sensory integration, behavioral strategizing, working memory, and decision-making. We suggest that these seemingly disparate functions may subserve an evolutionarily conserved role in sensorimotor cognition and that further study of rodent motor cortices could make a major contribution to our understanding of the evolution and function of the mammalian frontal cortex.
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