Journal article
A basal forebrain-cingulate circuit in macaques decides it is time to act
- Abstract:
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The medial frontal cortex has been linked to voluntary action, but an explanation of why decisions to act emerge at particular points in time has been lacking. We show that, in macaques, decisions about whether and when to act are predicted by a set of features defining the animal’s current and past context; for example, respectively, cues indicating the current average rate of reward and recent previous voluntary action decisions. We show that activity in two brain areas—the anterior cingula...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Elsevier Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Neuron Journal website
- Volume:
- 105
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 370–384
- Publication date:
- 2019-12-05
- Acceptance date:
- 2019-10-22
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1097-4199
- ISSN:
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0896-6273
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:1065127
- UUID:
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uuid:6d124c45-1541-4797-a680-7749b69afce1
- Local pid:
- pubs:1065127
- Source identifiers:
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1065127
- Deposit date:
- 2019-10-26
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- Copyright holder:
- Khalighinejad, N et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2019
- Rights statement:
- © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY license.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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