Neural Ensembles in the Lateral Prefrontal Cortex Temporally Multiplex Task Features During Virtual Navigation
Abbass, M.; Corrigan, B. W.; Johnston, R.; Gulli, R. A.; Sachs, A.; Lau, J. C.; Martinez-Trujillo, J. C.
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Neuronal populations can expand their information encoding capacity using mixed selective neurons. This is particularly prominent in association areas such as the Lateral Prefrontal Cortex (LPFC) that integrate information from multiple sensory systems. During naturalistic conditions where subjects have agency, it is unclear how LPFC neuronal ensembles process space and time varying information. Here we show that during a virtual navigation task that requires associative memory and decision making, individual neurons and neuronal ensembles in the LPFC time-multiplex their selectivity for different task features to fluidly encode the temporal contingencies of the task and the animals choice. Neurons in ventral regions showed more selectivity for non-spatial features, while dorsal regions showed selectivity for space and eye movements. These results demonstrate that during naturalistic tasks with fluid scenery and spatiotemporal dynamics, LPFC neurons and neuronal ensembles time-multiplex the components of their selectivity, expanding the spatiotemporal capacity of their neural codes.
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