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Paper   IPM / Cognitive / 17880
School of Cognitive Sciences
  Title:   Coupled oscillations orchestrate selective information transmission in visual cortex
  Author(s): 
1.  M. Khamechian
2.  M. Daliri
3.  S. Treue
4.  M. Esghaei
  Status:   Published
  Journal: PNAS
  Year:  2024
  Supported by:  IPM
  Abstract:
Performing visually guided behavior involves flexible routing of sensory information towards associative areas. We hypothesize that in visual cortical areas, this routing is shaped by a gating influence of the local neuronal population on the activity of the same population's single neurons. We analyzed beta frequencies (representing local population activity), high-gamma frequencies (representative of the activity of local clusters of neurons), and the firing of single neurons in the medial temporal (MT) area of behaving rhesus monkeys. Our results show an influence of beta activity on single neurons, predictive of behavioral performance. Similarly, the temporal dependence of high-gamma on beta predicts behavioral performance. These demonstrate a unidirectional influence of network-level neural dynamics on single-neuron activity, preferentially routing relevant information. This demonstration of a local top-down influence unveils a previously unexplored perspective onto a core feature of cortical information processing: the selective transmission of sensory information to downstream areas based on behavioral relevance.

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