Listening to the crowd: neuronal ensembles rule

Claudia E Feierstein; Zachary F Mainen

doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2010.04.042

Listening to the crowd: neuronal ensembles rule

Neuron. 2010 May 13;66(3):334-6. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2010.04.042.

Authors

Claudia E Feierstein¹, Zachary F Mainen

Affiliation

¹ Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Rua da Quinta Grande, 6, P-2780-156 Oeiras, Portugal.

PMID: 20471347
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2010.04.042

Abstract

In this issue of Neuron, Durstewitz and colleagues show that neuronal populations in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) of rats reflect abrupt changes in behavioral strategy as animals learn to act according to new rules in a rule-switching task.

Publication types

Comment