This study reveals a neuronal implementation of an algorithm for mapping abstract behavioral structure and transferring it to novel scenarios, shedding light on cognitive flexibility.
Through a series of tasks, mice could infer the underlying structure, demonstrating zero-shot inferences on their first trial of new tasks, highlighting neural adaptability.
The medial frontal cortex neurons mapped progress to goals, acts like place cells do for spatial mapping, indicating a complex relationship between behavior and neural encoding.
We found that a subset of goal-progress cells functioned as task-structured memory buffers, encoding entire sequences of behavioral steps and facilitating real-time action adjustment.
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