Detecting covert decision dynamics from neural population recordings in primate motor cortex
The neural mechanisms underlying decision-making are typically inferred from the average activity from sequentially recorded single neurons, which obscures important aspects of decision-making dynamics. I will show that covert decision variables (DV) can be tracked dynamically on single behavioral trials via simultaneous recording of large neural populations in primate motor cortex. I will also show—in nonhuman primates under the conditions of our experiments—that decisions are encoded by relatively stationary populations of neurons, not by sequences of activity passed from neuron-to-neuron.
Date:
2 November 2022, 16:00 (Wednesday, 4th week, Michaelmas 2022)
Venue:
Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details:
Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Speaker:
Professor William Newsome (Stanford University)
Organiser:
Cortex Club (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
cortex.club@studentclubs.ox.ac.uk
Host:
Cortex Club (University of Oxford)
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Demi Brizee
