Striatal pathways oppositely shift cortical activity along the decision axis
Jounhong Ryan Cho, Scott S. Bolkan, Lindsey S. Brown, Maja Skuza, Yousuf El-Jayyousi, Benjamin Midler, Robert N. Fetcho, Christopher A Zimmerman, Alejandro Pan-Vazquez, Manuel Schottdorf, Adrian Bondy, MD Guerrero Sánchez, Johanna Tacuri Luna, Alvaro Luna, Tim Eilers, , Ilana B. Witten
The paper investigates how direct and indirect basal ganglia pathways influence cortical activity during decision-making, finding that they oppositely modulate a subset of neurons encoding decision variables.
bioRxiv · Jul 29, 2025 · PreprintNeuroscience