Population-wide distributions of neural activity during perceptual decision-making

Article ID	Journal	Published Year	Pages	File Type
6286563	Progress in Neurobiology	2013	38 Pages	PDF

Abstract

âº We review population-wide distributions of neural activity across cortex. âº We mostly focus on data from animals involved in perceptual decision-making tasks. âº We study spontaneous, sensory, delay, and motor neural activity during these tasks. âº Distributions of firing rates are consistently long-tailed, across all cortex. âº We also review distributions of other features of activity: tuning, dynamics, etc.

Keywords

LIP lateral intraparietal cortex OFC PFC Long-tailed distributions Perceptual decision-making Cell-to-cell variability Population dynamics prefrontal cortex primary somatosensory cortex orbitofrontal cortex primary visual cortex primary motor cortex secondary motor cortex primary auditory cortex Inferotemporal cortex secondary visual cortex Secondary somatosensory cortex Neural coding