Memory fields of neurons in the primate prefrontal cortex

AUTOR(ES)

Rainer, Gregor

FONTE

The National Academy of Sciences

RESUMO

Many prefrontal (PF) neurons convey information about both an object’s identity (what) and its location (where). To explore how they represent conjunctions of what and where, we explored the receptive fields of their mnemonic activity (i.e., their “memory fields”) by requiring monkeys to remember both an object and its location at many positions throughout a wide portion of central vision. Many PF neurons conveyed object information and had highly localized memory fields that emphasized the contralateral, but not necessarily foveal, visual field. These results indicate that PF neurons can simultaneously convey precise location and object information and thus may play a role in constructing a unified representation of a visual scene.

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