Title
Multivariate Encoding Analysis of Medial Prefrontal Cortex Cortical Activity during Task Learning
Abstract
Studies have shown that medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) is responsible for outcome evaluation. Some recent studies also suggest that mPFC may play an important role in goal planning and action execution when performing a task If the information encoded in mPFC can be accurately extracted and identified, it can improve the design of brain-machine interfaces by better reconstructing subjects' motion intention guided by reward information. In this paper, we investigate whether mPFC neural signals simultaneously encode information of goal planning, action execution and outcome evaluation. Linear-nonlinear-Poisson (LNP) model is applied for encoding analysis on mPFC neural spike data when a rat is learning a two-lever-press discrimination task We use the L-2 norm of tuning parameter in LNP model to indicate the importance of the encoded information and compare the spike train prediction performance of LNP model using all information, the most significant information and reward information only. The preliminary results indicate that mPFC activity can encode simultaneously the information of goal planning, action execution and outcome evaluation and that all the relevant information could be reconstructed from mPFC spike trains on a single trial basis.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/EMBC46164.2021.9630322
2021 43RD ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE & BIOLOGY SOCIETY (EMBC)
Keywords
DocType
Volume
brain machine interface, medial prefrontal cortex, neural encoding
Conference
2021
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1557-170X
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jieyuan Tan100.34
Xiang Shen213.39
Xiang Zhang301.35
Yiwen Wang412.71