ePoster · Behavioral Neuroscience
Distinct oscillatory dynamics in the rat medial prefrontal cortex suggest beta bursts as a potential mediator of executive control
Ahmed Adžemović, Zoe Jäckel, Ilka Diester · FENS Forum 2024
The ability to withhold a response and appropriately time one’s actions is an essential component of goal-directed behavior. Aspects of such cognitive control in rodents are supported by the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC). The mPFC and its subareas are a site of distinct delay-related activity during motor preparation. However, how mPFC integrates relevant information and exercises the control over behavioral responses remains incompletely understood. Here we characterized local field potentials (LFPs) within mPFC with a focus on the detection of beta bursts – discrete oscillatory events in t