Publications by authors named "Gabriel Rojas-Bowe"
Existing work demonstrates that animals alternate between engaged and disengaged states during perceptual decision-making. To understand the neural signature of these states, we performed cortex-wide measurements of neural activity in mice making auditory decisions. The trial-averaged magnitude of neural activity was similar in the two states.
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- The prefrontal cortex (PFC) helps process information to guide decision-making, especially when faced with competing motivations like seeking food versus avoiding danger.
- In an experiment with rats, researchers found that specific brain regions (PL PFC, BLA, and VS) are crucial for avoiding a footshock while trying to access a food reward.
- Using techniques to manipulate the activity of neurons in these regions, they discovered that stimulating different pathways affected the rats' decision to avoid the shock, indicating complex interactions between the PFC, amygdala, and striatum in decision-making under conflict.