Symposium I1 Prefrontal Cortex and Behavior: Encoding of Self-Movement in Dorsal Prefrontal Neurons

Summary: The prefrontal cortex is a heterogeneous structure consisting of several distinct areas, each with its own function. We examined a single unit activity of the dorsal prefrontal cortex during the performance of a delayed conditional discrimination task in which animals were required to discriminate between push-3 and push-12 and had to move the stick left or right depending on whether they…