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NATURE NEUROSCIENCE
卷 17, 期 3, 页码 423-430出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nn.3632
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- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Division of Intramural Clinical and Biological Research
- Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme, European Research Council [243393]
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute International Early Careers Scientist Grant
- Whitehall Foundation
- US National Institutes of Health [NS083815]
- European Research Council (ERC) [243393] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
Chunking allows the brain to efficiently organize memories and actions. Although basal ganglia circuits have been implicated in action chunking, little is known about how individual elements are concatenated into a behavioral sequence at the neural level. Using a task in which mice learned rapid action sequences, we uncovered neuronal activity encoding entire sequences as single actions in basal ganglia circuits. In addition to neurons with activity related to the start/stop activity signaling sequence parsing, we found neurons displaying inhibited or sustained activity throughout the execution of an entire sequence. This sustained activity covaried with the rate of execution of individual sequence elements, consistent with motor concatenation. Direct and indirect pathways of basal ganglia were concomitantly active during sequence initiation, but behaved differently during sequence performance, revealing a more complex functional organization of these circuits than previously postulated. These results have important implications for understanding the functional organization of basal ganglia during the learning and execution of action sequences.
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