Duan, CA;
Pagan, M;
Piet, AT;
Kopec, CD;
Akrami, A;
Riordan, AJ;
Erlich, JC;
(2021)
Collicular circuits for flexible sensorimotor routing.
Nature Neuroscience
, 24
pp. 1110-1120.
10.1038/s41593-021-00865-x.
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Abstract
Context-based sensorimotor routing is a hallmark of executive control. Pharmacological inactivations in rats have implicated the midbrain superior colliculus (SC) in this process. But what specific role is this, and what circuit mechanisms support it? Here we report a subset of rat SC neurons that instantiate a specific link between the representations of context and motor choice. Moreover, these neurons encode animals’ choice far earlier than other neurons in the SC or in the frontal cortex, suggesting that their neural dynamics lead choice computation. Optogenetic inactivations revealed that SC activity during context encoding is necessary for choice behavior, even while that choice behavior is robust to inactivations during choice formation. Searches for SC circuit models matching our experimental results identified key circuit predictions while revealing some a priori expected features as unnecessary. Our results reveal circuit mechanisms within the SC that implement response inhibition and context-based vector inversion during executive control.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Collicular circuits for flexible sensorimotor routing |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1038/s41593-021-00865-x |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-021-00865-x |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Science & Technology, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Neurosciences, Neurosciences & Neurology, DORSOLATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX, SHORT-TERM-MEMORY, SUPERIOR COLLICULUS, PERIRHINAL CORTEX, NEURAL MODEL, DECISION, TASK, ANTISACCADE, SIGNALS, RATS |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > The Sainsbury Wellcome Centre |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10132847 |
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