Cognitive control of behavior and hippocampal information processing without medial prefrontal cortex
Eun Hye Park, Kally C O’Reilly Sparks, Griffin Grubbs, David Taborga, Kyndall R. Nicholas, Armaan S Ahmed, Natalie Ruiz-Pérez, Natalie Kim, Simon Segura-Carrillo, André Antonio Fenton
This study tests whether medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) is essential for cognitive control by lesioning mPFC in rats performing an active place avoidance task and finding that cognitive control can occur locally in brain networks.
bioRxiv · Dec 20, 2019Neuroscience