Publications by authors named "Verity A Elliott"
Decision-making based on noisy evidence requires accumulating evidence and categorizing it to form a choice. Here we evaluate a proposed feedforward and modular mapping of this process in rats: evidence accumulated in anterodorsal striatum (ADS) is categorized in prefrontal cortex (frontal orienting fields, FOF). Contrary to this, we show that both regions appear to be indistinguishable in their encoding/decoding of accumulator value and communicate this information bidirectionally.
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- The study investigates the use of Neuropixels probes for long-term neural recordings in freely moving rats, addressing questions of stability and reusability.
- Researchers successfully recorded hundreds of neural units over several months, with varying yields based on the anatomical location of the probes.
- Despite a slight increase in noise from reused probes, the recordings remained effective, suggesting that this method could standardize chronic recordings in similar-sized animals.