Fabrizio Musacchio<p>🧠 New preprint by Ruff, Markman, Kim & Cohen (2025): <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/NeuralPopulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NeuralPopulation</span></a> formatting matters for function. In monkeys combining motion and reward, both middle temporal area (<a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/MT" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MT</span></a>) & dorsolateral prefrontal <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/cortex" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>cortex</span></a> (<a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/dlPFC" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>dlPFC</span></a>) encode both signals. But MT formats them separately, dlPFC integrates them. A recurrent <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/RNN" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RNN</span></a> model predicted, and microstimulation confirmed, distinct <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/behavioral" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>behavioral</span></a> impacts.</p><p>🌍 <a href="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.03.631242v1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20</span><span class="invisible">25.01.03.631242v1</span></a></p><p><a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/Neuroscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Neuroscience</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/CompNeuro" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CompNeuro</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/DecisionMaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DecisionMaking</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/NeuralCoding" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NeuralCoding</span></a></p>
