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General mechanisms of task engagement in the primate frontal cortex

2024-01-16

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Staying engaged with a task is necessary to maintain goal-directed behaviors. Although engagement varies with the specific task at hand it also exhibits continuous, intrinsic fluctuations widely. This intrinsic component of engagement is difficult to isolate behaviorally or neurally in controlled experiments with humans. By contrast, animals spontaneously move between periods of complete task engagement and diseng...

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24061949-d356-514a-bdda-a50c8d4b3720
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10.1101/2024.01.16.575830
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