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Decision-related activity and movement selection in primate visual cortex

Science Advances, ISSN: 2375-2548, Vol: 10, Issue: 22, Page: eadk7214
2024
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Fluctuations in the activity of sensory neurons often predict perceptual decisions. This connection can be quantified with a metric called choice probability (CP), and there is a longstanding debate about whether CP reflects a causal influence on decisions or an echo of decision-making activity elsewhere in the brain. Here, we show that CP can reflect a third variable, namely, the movement used to indicate the decision. In a standard visual motion discrimination task, neurons in the middle temporal (MT) area of primate cortex responded more strongly during trials that involved a saccade toward their receptive fields. This variability accounted for much of the CP observed across the neuronal population, and it arose through training. Moreover, pharmacological inactivation of MT biased behavioral responses away from the corresponding visual field locations. These results demonstrate that training on a task with fixed sensorimotor contingencies introduces movement-related activity in sensory brain regions and that this plasticity can shape the neural circuitry of perceptual decision-making.

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Laamerad, Pooya; Liu, Liu D; Pack, Christopher C

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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