This review has turned into my go-to paper for rodent PFC circuit. Useful in the lab and for teaching. Thanks @panastasiades.bsky.social and @carterlab.bsky.social for writing this. www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

Literature highlight, this week from our consortium! Muyers et al. used an olfaction-guided spatial memory task in mice to show that prefrontal neurons encode both generalized and trajectory-specific aspects of task structure. www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Literature highlight of the week: Elston and Wallis used a state-dependent choice task in monkeys to show that the hippocampus relays context-based information via theta waves to the orbitofrontal cortex, which informs valuation and...

Literature Highlight of the Week: Almoril-Porras and Calvo et al. demonstrate the necessity of gap junctions in the temperature gradient migration strategies of C....

Mugan et al. investigate the effects of environmental complexity on ensemble firing and local field potential in the dmPFC, hippocampus, and dlstriatum of freely moving rats during a foraging task. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0896627324006986?via%3Dihub#bib26

Qian et al. explore the dynamic interplay between relevant information and distractor representations in the lateral prefrontal cortex (LPFC) and prearcuate cortex (PAC) of macaque monkeys. https://www.jneurosci.org/content/early/2024/12/08/JNEUROSCI.1770-24.2024.long

Literature highlight of the week: Chen et al. explore thalamic representation and thalamocortical interactions that contribute to hierarchical cognitive control in humans https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002937

Literature highlight of the week: Xu et al. show how robustness and sensitivity coexist in neural networks by analyzing neural dynamics in the monkey prefrontal cortex and using comptational approaches https://www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10.1073/pnas.240948712

Literature highlight of the week: Van de Maele et al. propose a hierarchical active inference model clarifying how the hippocampal-medial prefrontal cortex circuit solves spatial interaction tasks by bridging physical and task-space maps....

Literature highlight of the week: Lam et al. used a decision task with rule reversals in tree shrews and found that relevant thalamic neurons drive prefrontal reconfiguration following a reversal by attributing errors to an environmental...

Literature highlight of the week: El-Gaby et al. identify an algorithm that relates medial frontal cortex role in schema formation and sequence memory, by internally organizing mnemonic activity according to an abstract structure shared by different...

Literature highlight of the week: Mugan et al. show that complex naturalistic environments modulate decision-making strategies, neural representations, and interactions among the hippocampus, dorsolateral striatum, and dorsomedial prefrontal...

Literature highlight of the week: Hansen et al. show that multiple organizational features of cortical activity can be traced back to the brainstem and that cortical functional architecture reflects brainstem influence. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-024-01787-0

Literature highlight of the week: Daume et al., show that activity of hippocampal neurons that are selective for specific image categories in a task performed by humans during working memory maintenance predicts the success of long-term memory...

Literature highlight of the week: Zheng et al. show that The MD enhances context-relevant recurrent inputs and suppresses context-irrelevant neuronal activities in PFC neurons, making the PFC modular for different temporal contexts...

Literature highlight of the week: Tian et al. shed light on the neural processes underlying the mental manipulation of multiple items with different ordinal ranks in working...

Literature highlight of the week: Tang et al. study the roles of the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), ventral striatum (VS), amygdala (AMY), and mediodorsal thalamus (MDt) in symbolic outcome learning. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0896627324006421?via%3Dihub

Literature highlight of the week: Crawford et al. use two distinct versions of a cognitive effort decision-making paradigm during fMRI and show that the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex is the key locus of cognitive effort-based decision-making in...

Literature highlight of the week: Laquitaine et al. reveal the neural and computational mechanisms underlying switching behaviors in humans https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-52290-w

Literature highlight of the week: Gava et al. show that plastic organization of hippocampal coactivity supports a network trade-off between robust and flexible computations. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adk9611

Literature highlight of the week: Chen et al., using sequence sorting tasks, show compositional population codes of sequence working memory (SWM) and their well-orchestrated neural dynamics in the frontal cortex, supporting the flexible control of...

Literature highlight of the week: New review on how the healthy brain processes numerical information by Andreas Nieder https://journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1152/physrev.00014.2024

Literature highlight of the week: New review on how the healthy brain processes numerical information by Andreas Nieder https://journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1152/physrev.00014.2024

Literature highlight of the week: Rodríguez-Nieto et al. show that increases in excitatory and inhibitory tone were associated with better cognitive performance in young and older adults, respectively, using magnetic resonance...

Literature highlight of the week: Pu et al. show that some dynamic transformations of PFC neuron population-based stimulus representations are not caused by task operations requiring explicit training in male monkeys (Macaca...

Literature highlight of the week: Ehret et al. show that the mPFC in mice contributes to the selection of goal-directed actions by transforming sensory inputs into specific behavioral outputs through distributed population-level computations...

Literature highlight of the week: Insanally et al. show that diverse neuronal responses are likely essential for robustly supporting the dynamics required for sensorimotor transformations and adaptive behaviors, and emerge from synaptic plasticity...

Literature highlight of the week: Broschard et al. show that in a category learning task, the human dlPFC and vmPFC are important for rule-based learning and focusing attention on deterministic features,...

Literature highlight of the week: Driscoll et al. identify an algorithmic neural substrate for modular computation through the study of multitasking artificial recurrent neural networks. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-024-01668-6

Literature highlight of the week: This review by Miller & Constantinidis elucidates how the machinery of plasticity in PFC circuits facilitates the integration of learned experiences across time to best guide adaptive behaviour https://www.nature.com/articles/s41583-024-00836-8

Literature highlight of the week: Ghorbani et al. show that different patterns of directed communication and inefficient information transmission between brain regions underlie why younger people perceive the world as moving...

Scott et al. discuss that thalamocortical interactions resemble hierarchical Bayesian computations thus facilitating execution of context-appropriate behaviors. https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S1364-6613(24)00119-0?dgcid=raven_jbs_aip_email

Literature highlight of the week: Adeleyu et al. show that VTA glutamatergic neurons are involved in establishing infralimbic inhibition encoding reward acquisition and reward-target association. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306452224001258?via%3Dihub

Literature highlight of the week: Athanasiadis et al. find hippocampal activity patterns that contain information about the previous sensory motor experience of rodents. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/hipo.23619

Literature highlight of last week: Chini et al. find that skewed distributions of anatomical and functional parameters, such as firing rates and synaptic weights, are already configured during development, hence are less likely to be experience...

Literature Highlight of the Week: Ishizu et al. contrast the representation of prior values with that of sensory inputs and choice, revealing a distributed pattern for the former across the cortex, whereas the latter tends to be more...

Gelens et al. provide evidence that prediction error information is synergistically represented across different brain areas. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-48329-7

Literature highlight of the week: Kay M. Tye et al. provide a biological explanation at the implementation level for mixed selectivity observed in neural circuits. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2024.04.017

Literature highlight of the week: Zhu et al. describe how what appears to be side bias is actually part of mice strategy to tackle an auditory-based two-choice task. https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(24)00457-3?dgcid=raven_jbs_aip_email#%20

Stoll et al. describe the representation of different task variables composing subjective value in the ventrolateral prefrontal and orbitofrontal cortex. https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(24)00198-3#%20

Literature highlight of the week: Stroud et al. discuss dynamic coding as the main feature of the prefrontal cortex enabling working memory. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364661324000536?via%3Dihub

Literature highlight of the week: Vázquez et al. study the effect of anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) inhibition in a two-choice task. https://www.jneurosci.org/content/early/2024/04/01/JNEUROSCI.1850-23.2024

Literature highlight of the week: Clairis et all study the distinct roles of dorsomedial and ventromedial prefrontal cortex in the action value estimation and action actualization respectively. https://www.jneurosci.org/content/early/2024/03/20/JNEUROSCI.1176-23.2024

Literature highlight of the week: Jahn et al. show that the brain uses reward feedback to attend to relevant stimuli. Attended stimulus features were converted into a common value representation, allowing attentional control to generalize across...

Literature highlight of the week: Muysers et al. discover that the representation of the task space in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) of mice stabilizes after learning the task and remains stable over extended periods of time. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-46350-4

Literature highlight of the week: Manley et al. demonstrate an unbound scale of dimensionality in the neuronal cortex population by imaging neural activity at cellular...

Literature highlight of the week: Liu et al. outline the importance of outcome expectations represented in the lateral OFC to the computation of identity prediction errors (iPE) in the dopaminergic midbrain. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-45880-1

Literature highlight of the week: Viswanathan et al. discovered the sequential transformation of numerical representation to binary decision in the prefrontal cortex of primates performing a numerical evaluation...

Literature highlight of the week: Nitsch et al. discover a grid-like representation of value in the entorhinal cortex, supporting the prediction of the value of future choices in a decision-making task. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-45127-z

Literature highlight of the week: Silverstein et al. identify the regulatory role of the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex in social threat learning, and elucidate the underlying circuitry. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-07008-1