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The role of the prefrontal cortex and caudate nucleus on top-down and bottom-up behavioral control.

Research Project

Project/Area Number 16K16646
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Research Field Basic / Social brain science
Research InstitutionTohoku University

Principal Investigator

Hosokawa Takayuki  東北大学, 生命科学研究科, 講師 (30415533)

Project Period (FY) 2016-04-01 – 2018-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2017)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥900,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000)
Keywords前頭連合野 / トップダウン / ボトムアップ / TMS / 行動制御 / 尾状核 / サル / カテゴリ / 大脳基底核
Outline of Final Research Achievements

To study the neural mechanisms of top-down behavioral control that involves the use of category information, we applied repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) to the prefrontal cortex (PFC) before a monkey performed a group-reversal task. The behavioral task had two types of reversals: whole reversal, where the stimulus-outcome contingency changed in all stimuli, and partial reversal, where the contingency changed in only half of the stimuli. In the whole reversal, the monkey could use category information for behavioral adaptation. In the partial reversal, on the other hand, the monkey had to relearn the relations between stimuli and the outcome (juice or saline). We found that the performance in the whole reversal was deteriorated, while that in the partial reversal was not affected, by inactivation of PFC with 1 Hz rTMS. The results suggest that PFC is involved in top-down, but not in bottom-up, behavioral control.

Report

(3 results)
  • 2017 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2016 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (3 results)

All 2017 2016

All Presentation (3 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results)

  • [Presentation] Involvement of monkey prefrontal cortex in category-based top-down behavioral adaptation2017

    • Author(s)
      Hosokawa T, Nakamura S, Yamada M, Iijima T, and Tsutsui K
    • Organizer
      第40回日本神経科学大会
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Neural correlates of abstract thought process in monkey prefrontal cortex2016

    • Author(s)
      Takayuki Hosokawa,Shinya Nakamura,Munekazu Yamada,Toshio Iijima,Ken-Ichiro Tsutsui
    • Organizer
      第39回日本神経科学大会
    • Place of Presentation
      横浜
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Reduction of spontaneous physical activity and sociability induced by low-frequency repetitive transcranial stimulation (rTMS) to the lower part of the medial frontal cortex in monkeys.2016

    • Author(s)
      Shinya Nakamura,Kentaro Ogawa,Yusuke Goto,Takayuki Hosokawa,Toshio Iijima,Ken-Ichiro Tsutsui
    • Organizer
      第39回日本神経科学大会
    • Place of Presentation
      横浜
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report

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Published: 2016-04-21   Modified: 2019-03-29  

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