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  • Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Science
  • Animal Behavior

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  • Working memory (WM) is crucial for cognitive tasks, involving information maintenance and processing.
  • Visual information impacts WM performance, but its neural basis is not fully understood.
  • The avian nidopallium caudolaterale (NCL) serves as an analog to the mammalian prefrontal cortex.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how visual information complexity influences working memory performance.
  • To identify the neural correlates of visual information processing in working memory.
  • To explore the role of neuronal coding in the avian NCL during working memory tasks.

Main Methods:

  • Behavioral experiments were conducted using pigeons (Columba livia).
  • Single-unit recordings were performed in the nidopallium caudolaterale (NCL).
  • Stimuli varied in complexity, including uniform gray and complex pictures with luminance, spatial, and color information.

Main Results:

  • Complex pictures, unlike uniform gray ones, significantly enhanced working memory performance.
  • NCL neurons exhibited distinct coding patterns based on stimulus complexity.
  • Neuronal multiplexing, integrating visual and value features, was observed for complex stimuli, switching to choice representation during delay periods.
  • For gray stimuli, NCL neurons showed exclusive choice representation from stimulus onset, potentially leading to memory trace decay.

Conclusions:

  • High visual stimulus complexity enhances working memory performance in pigeons.
  • Neuronal multiplexing in the NCL is associated with improved working memory, possibly by facilitating neural code readout.
  • The findings suggest that stimulus complexity and neuronal coding strategies play a critical role in working memory efficacy.