Nature CommunicationsNeurosciencePeer-reviewed journal article
Dynamic tracking of objects in the macaque dorsomedial frontal cortex
Abstract
Cognitive neuroscience posits that humans perform physical inferences using mental simulations. Here, we test this hypothesis by analyzing neural activity in the monkeys frontal cortex in a ball interception task. We find a low-dimensional neural embedding of the ball position that tracks the ball both when it is visible and invisible. This embedding may serve as a neural substrate for mental simulation.
- organism: non-human primate
- assay: electronic health records
- research focus: cell type annotation
- approach: statistical model
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- top 4%
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