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  • Primate Brain Research

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  • Single neurons in the primate lateral prefrontal cortex (LPFC) are known to encode visual attention and stimulus features.
  • Understanding how neuronal ensembles, rather than individual neurons, encode this information is crucial but less understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To compare the information encoded by single neurons versus neuronal ensembles in the LPFC regarding visual attention and stimulus features.
  • To investigate the efficiency of neuronal ensembles in decoding attended spatial and nonspatial information.

Main Methods:

  • Recorded neuronal ensemble activity in the LPFC of macaque monkeys during a visual attention task.
  • Utilized a linear classifier to decode attended stimulus location and motion direction from neuronal responses.
  • Employed two ensemble building methods: best single units and best ensemble contribution.

Main Results:

  • Both ensemble building methods showed substantially higher decoding performance than individual single units, even with small ensemble sizes (n < 60).
  • The best ensemble method achieved similar decoding performance with fewer neurons compared to the best single units method.
  • Neuronal ensembles in the LPFC encode more information about attended spatial and nonspatial features than individual neurons.

Conclusions:

  • Neuronal ensembles in the LPFC are more effective than single neurons for encoding attended visual information.
  • Efficient coding of visual attention can be achieved by relatively small neuronal ensembles.
  • The relationship between signal and noise correlations within ensembles is key for efficient attention coding.