Search Results - "Desrochers, Theresa"
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The Necessity of Rostrolateral Prefrontal Cortex for Higher-Level Sequential Behavior
Published in Neuron (Cambridge, Mass.) (23-09-2015)“…Frontal neocortex is thought to support our highest intellectual abilities, including our ability to plan and enact a sequence of tasks toward a desired goal…”
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Need-based prioritization of behavior
Published in eLife (25-03-2019)“…When presented with a choice, organisms need to assimilate internal information with external stimuli and past experiences to rapidly and flexibly optimize…”
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Unpacking self-ordered sequences
Published in Neuron (Cambridge, Mass.) (16-02-2022)“…In this issue of Neuron, Chiang et al. examine population coding of self-ordered sequences in prefrontal cortex. They find better decoding, more distributed…”
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Addressing the Gender Gap in Research: Insights from a Women in Neuroscience Conference
Published in Trends in neurosciences (Regular ed.) (01-06-2021)“…There has been growing interest in quantifying the proportion of women participating in scientific conferences, publications, and committees. Numbers reveal…”
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Monkey Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex Represents Abstract Visual Sequences during a No-Report Task
Published in The Journal of neuroscience (12-04-2023)“…Monitoring sequential information is an essential component of our daily lives. Many of these sequences are abstract, in that they do not depend on the…”
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Abstract Sequential Task Control is Facilitated by Practice and Embedded Motor Sequences
Published in Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition (01-10-2021)“…Everyday task sequences, such as cooking, contain overarching goals (completing the meal), subgoals (prepare vegetables), and motor actions (chopping). Such…”
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A role for visual areas in physics simulations
Published in Cognitive neuropsychology (17-11-2021)“…To engage with the world, we must regularly make predictions about the outcomes of physical scenes. How do we make these predictions? Recent computational…”
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Abstract task sequence initiation deficit dissociates anxiety disorders from obsessive–compulsive disorder and healthy controls
Published in Cognitive, affective, & behavioral neuroscience (01-12-2024)“…In everyday life, humans perform sequences of tasks. These tasks may be disrupted in people with obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD). Symptoms, such as…”
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Hierarchical cognitive control and the frontal lobes
Published in Handbook of clinical neurology (2019)“…Cognitive control refers to our ability to choose courses of thought and action that achieve our goals over habitual but contextually inappropriate ones…”
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Sequential Control Underlies Robust Ramping Dynamics in the Rostrolateral Prefrontal Cortex
Published in The Journal of neuroscience (20-02-2019)“…An essential human skill is our capacity to monitor and execute a sequence of tasks in the service of an overarching goal. Such a sequence can be as mundane as…”
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Reward Value Enhances Sequence Monitoring Ramping Dynamics as Ending Rewards Approach in the Rostrolateral Prefrontal Cortex
Published in eNeuro (01-03-2022)“…Many fundamental human behaviors contain multiple sequences performed to reach a desired outcome, such as cooking. Reward is inherently associated with…”
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SRT is as easy as 12AKDB3
Published in Nature human behaviour (01-12-2018)“…Sequence learning — how we learn that one event or item follows another — has been studied mostly focusing on the effects of relatively simple relationships…”
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Finding parallels in fronto-striatal organization
Published in Trends in cognitive sciences (01-08-2012)“…Evidence suggests that lateral frontal cortex is hierarchically organized such that rostral frontal regions support more abstract representations than caudal…”
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Habit Learning by Naive Macaques Is Marked by Response Sharpening of Striatal Neurons Representing the Cost and Outcome of Acquired Action Sequences
Published in Neuron (Cambridge, Mass.) (19-08-2015)“…Over a century of scientific work has focused on defining the factors motivating behavioral learning. Observations in animals and humans trained on a wide…”
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A system for recording neural activity chronically and simultaneously from multiple cortical and subcortical regions in nonhuman primates
Published in Journal of neurophysiology (01-04-2012)“…A major goal of neuroscience is to understand the functions of networks of neurons in cognition and behavior. Recent work has focused on implanting arrays of…”
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The Monitoring and Control of Task Sequences in Human and Non-Human Primates
Published in Frontiers in systems neuroscience (21-01-2016)“…Our ability to plan and execute a series of tasks leading to a desired goal requires remarkable coordination between sensory, motor, and decision-related…”
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Optimal habits can develop spontaneously through sensitivity to local cost
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (23-11-2010)“…Habits and rituals are expressed universally across animal species. These behaviors are advantageous in allowing sequential behaviors to be performed without…”
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Two different lateral amygdala cell populations contribute to the initiation and storage of memory
Published in Nature neuroscience (01-07-2001)“…Single-cell activity was recorded in the dorsal subnucleus of the lateral amygdala (LAd) of freely behaving rats during Pavlovian fear conditioning, to…”
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Toward next-generation primate neuroscience: A collaboration-based strategic plan for integrative neuroimaging
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Habit learning supported by efficiently controlled network dynamics in naive macaque monkeys
Published 25-06-2020“…Primates display a marked ability to learn habits in uncertain and dynamic environments. The associated perceptions and actions of such habits engage…”
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