Abstract
Recent work in decision neuroscience suggests that visual saliency can interact with reward-based choice,and the lateral intraparietal cortex(LIP)is implicated in this process.In this study,we recorded from LIP neurons while monkeys performed a two alternative choice task in which the reward and luminance associated with each offer were varied independently.We discovered that the animal's choice was dictated by the reward amount while the luminance had a marginal effect.In the LIP,neuronal activity corresponded well with the animal's choice pattern,in that a majority of reward-modulated neurons encoded the reward amount in the neuron's preferred hemifield with a positive slope.In contrast,compared to their responses to low luminance,an approximately equal proportion of luminance-sensitive neurons responded to high luminance with increased or decreased activity,leading to a much weaker population-level response.Meanwhile,in the non-preferred hemifield,the strength of encoding for reward amount and luminance was positively correlated,suggesting the integration of these two factors in the LIP.Moreover,neurons encoding reward and luminance were homogeneously distributed along the anterior-posterior axis of the LIP.Overall,our study pro-vides further evidence supporting the neural instantiation of a priority map in the LIP in reward-based decisions.
基金项目
National Science and Technology Innovation 2030 Major Program(2021ZD0203700/2021ZD0203702)
Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Major Project(2018SHZDZX05)
Program of Introducing Talents of Discipline to Universities(Ministry of Education of China)
Program of Introducing Talents of Discipline to Universities(Base B16018)
NYU Shanghai Boost Fund()
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