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Control of visual cortical signals by prefrontal dopamine

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  • Behrad Noudoost

    (Stanford University School of Medicine, Fairchild building, 299 Campus Drive West)

  • Tirin Moore

    (Stanford University School of Medicine, Fairchild building, 299 Campus Drive West)

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Role in vision for D1 receptors The prefrontal cortex has an important role in higher cognitive functions, and is thought to control the information in the visual cortex, but little is known about the specifics of this modulation. Behrad Noudoost and Tirin Moore now show that pharmacological modification of D1 dopamine receptors in the frontal eye field selectively affects responses of neurons in area V4 of the visual cortex and behaviourally increases target selection in that region. These results identify a role for D1 receptors in mediating the sensory areas in the frontal cortex and suggest how processing in sensory areas could be altered in mental disorders that involve prefrontal dopamine.

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  • Behrad Noudoost & Tirin Moore, 2011. "Control of visual cortical signals by prefrontal dopamine," Nature, Nature, vol. 474(7351), pages 372-375, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:474:y:2011:i:7351:d:10.1038_nature09995
    DOI: 10.1038/nature09995
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    1. Peter R Murphy & Joachim Vandekerckhove & Sander Nieuwenhuis, 2014. "Pupil-Linked Arousal Determines Variability in Perceptual Decision Making," PLOS Computational Biology, Public Library of Science, vol. 10(9), pages 1-13, September.
    2. Thore Apitz & Nico Bunzeck, 2014. "Early Effects of Reward Anticipation Are Modulated by Dopaminergic Stimulation," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 9(10), pages 1-11, October.
    3. Amir Akbarian & Kelsey Clark & Behrad Noudoost & Neda Nategh, 2021. "A sensory memory to preserve visual representations across eye movements," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 12(1), pages 1-9, December.
    4. Yvonne Li & Nabil Daddaoua & Mattias Horan & Nicholas C. Foley & Jacqueline Gottlieb, 2022. "Uncertainty modulates visual maps during noninstrumental information demand," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 13(1), pages 1-12, December.
    5. Torben Ott & Anna Marlina Stein & Andreas Nieder, 2023. "Dopamine receptor activation regulates reward expectancy signals during cognitive control in primate prefrontal neurons," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 14(1), pages 1-14, December.
    6. Alexandre Zénon & Brian D Corneil & Andrea Alamia & Nabil Filali-Sadouk & Etienne Olivier, 2014. "Counterproductive Effect of Saccadic Suppression during Attention Shifts," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 9(1), pages 1-12, January.
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