Topic: ventrolateral prefrontal cortex

Primates exhibit a remarkable ability to rapidly and accurately recognize visual objects in their central field of view. Based on accurate estimates of object identity from neural population activity and the object-specific behavioral deficits observed after cortical perturbation, previous work has identified the primate ventral visual cortex as a critical brain circuit for core object recognition. In addition, our recent work has demonstrated that the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (vlPFC; recurrently connected to the ventral stream) is also critical for robust object recognition. In this st

Previous neuroanatomical tracing studies on monkey ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (VLPFC) suggest the existence of a rostro-caudal organization, in which caudal and middle areas are mainly involved in controlling oculomotor and skeletomotor behaviors, respectively, while rostral ones in more abstract operations (Gerbella et al. 2017). A recent study (Rozzi et al. 2023) demonstrated that this region, as a whole, processes contextual information relevant for action guidance. To address whether there are potential functional differences within specific VLPFC areas, we employed Demixed Principal