Topic: delayed-discrimination task

Major efforts in neuroscience are dedicated to uncovering synaptic plasticity rules which underlie learning-related changes of neural activity in vivo. Plasticity rules measured in vitro are highly heterogeneous, suggesting that learned behaviors could be supported by particular combinations of plasticity rules. We studied the emergence of preparatory neural activity in the anterior lateral motor (ALM) cortex during a delayed-discrimination task, a paradigmatic example of learned neural-dynamics supporting flexible goal-directed behaviors. Specifically, we constrained an attractor network mode