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Medial prefrontal cortex compresses concept representations through learning

Year: 2017

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: Prefrontal cortex (PFC) is thought to support the ability to focus on goal-relevant information by filtering out irrelevant information, a process akin to dimensionality reduction. Here, we find direct evidence of goal-directed data compression within medial PFC during learning, such that the degree of neural compression predicts an individual's ability to selectively attend to concept-specific information. These findings suggest a domaingeneral mechanism of learning through compression in mPFC.

Source: International Workshop on Pattern Recognition in NeuroImaging

DOI: 10.1109/prni.2017.7981500

Authors: Michael L. Mack, Alison R. Preston, Bradley C. Love

Institutions: University of Toronto, The University of Texas at Austin, University of London, University College London

Language: English

Topic: Memory and Neural Mechanisms

Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience

Field: Neuroscience

Domain: Life Sciences

Open Access status: green