A very nice experiment from Matt Chafee et al (as usual). They show that neurons in the prefrontal cortex don’t have fixed properties. Instead, they show “mixed selectivity” that changes with behavioral context and is biased toward stimuli that inhibit prepotent responses. Sounds like cognitive control to me.
Blackman, Rachael K., et al. “Monkey prefrontal neurons reflect logical operations for cognitive control in a variant of the AX continuous performance task (AX-CPT).” The Journal of Neuroscience 36.14 (2016): 4067-4079.
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