期刊
CEREBRAL CORTEX
卷 32, 期 20, 页码 4512-4523出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhab499
关键词
monkeys; medial prefrontal cortex; neural dynamics; social interactions
资金
- Italian Ministry for University and Research (Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Universita e della Ricerca) [PRIN 2017KZNZLN_00]
Making decisions based on the actions of others is crucial in daily interpersonal interactions. This study investigated how the brain represents the actions of others at the single neural level in the posterior medial prefrontal cortex (pmPFC). The results suggest that pmPFC neurons show selective directional tuning specific to the agent executing the task, and there is a strong relationship between action anticipation and execution.
Making decisions based on the actions of others is critical to daily interpersonal interactions. We investigated the representations of other's actions at single neural level in posterior medial prefrontal cortex (pmPFC) in two monkeys during the observation of actions of another agent, in a social interaction task. Each monkey separately interacted with a human partner. The monkey and the human alternated turns as actor and observer. The actor was required to reach one of two visual targets, avoiding the previously chosen target, while the observer monitored that action. pmPFC neurons decoupled in most cases self from others during both the execution and the observation of explicit actions. pmPFC neurons showed selective directional tuning specific for the agent who was executing the task. Moreover, we assessed the relationship of the response coding between the periods immediately before and after the action, by using a cross-modal decoding analysis. We found neural network stability from the action anticipation period to the observation of other's actions, suggesting a strong relationship between the anticipation and the execution of an action. When the monkey was the actor, the population coding appeared dynamic, possibly reflecting a goal-action transformation unique to the monkey's own action execution.
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