Benjamin Dougen

Distinct sensorimotor encoding in tuft dendrites and somata associated with action, correction, and learning

Frontal cortex plays critical roles in action control and motor skill learning. Within the layer 1 apical tuft dendrites of layer 5 (L5) neurons in the frontal cortex, precise input patterns and back-propagating action potentials can trigger powerful regenerative events that may be essential for flexible computation an...