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Mikhail Proskurin^1,2, Maxim Manakov^1,2, Alla Karpova¹

¹Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, United States.

|November 22, 2023

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The anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) tracks strategy use in rats by monitoring recent choices. This brain region

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Background:

Medial frontal cortical areas are crucial for flexible strategy deployment in complex environments.
The specific circuit computations underlying this cognitive flexibility remain largely unknown.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the neural ensemble activity in the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) during strategy selection and execution in rats.
To elucidate the computations the ACC performs to support flexible strategy use in a self-guided task.

Main Methods:

Recording neural ensemble activity in male rats performing a self-guided search task.
Analyzing ACC neural activity in relation to behavioral choices and reward history.
Examining the encoding of strategy prevalence and reward history within the ACC.

Main Results:

The ACC robustly tracks a summary statistic of recent behavioral history (strategy prevalence) during strategy execution.
This tracking is widespread, independent of immediate reward delivery, and persists across global context changes.
Reward tracking by the ACC is strategy-specific, but reward prevalence alone does not fully explain the observed neural activity.

Conclusions:

ACC ensemble dynamics are structured by summary statistics of recent behavioral choices, suggesting a role in statistical learning.
The ACC may estimate which actions lead to favorable outcomes through statistical inference.
These findings shed light on the neural mechanisms of cognitive flexibility and strategy selection.