Topic: visuomotor delayed reaching task

Intrinsic timescales of neurons represent their temporal receptive fields. They inform on the position of the area they were recorded from in the cortical hierarchy and reflect information encoding dynamics. Using laminar recordings, here we investigate the differences of intrinsic timescales between dorsal premotor (PMd) and primary motor (M1) cortex, and across cortical depth, during a visuomotor delayed reaching task in two macaques. For each neuron, autocorrelograms computed from interspike intervals were fitted with an exponential function to estimate the time decay constant (𝜏) as a meas