Several studies have shown that the information related to grip type, object identity and kinematics of monkey grasping actions is available in macaque cortical areas of F5, MI, and AIP. In particular, these studies show that the neural discharge patterns of the neuron populations from the aforementioned areas can be used for accurate decoding of action parameters. In this study, we focus on single neuron decoding capacity of neurons in a given region, F5, considering their functional classification, i.e. as to whether they show the mirror property or not. To this end, we recorded neural spike data and arm kinematics from a monkey that performed grasping actions. The spikes were then used as a regressor to predict the kinematic parameters. Results show that single neuron real-time decoding of the kinematics is not perfect, but reasonable performance can be achieved with selected neurons from both populations. Considering the neurons that we have studied (N:32), non-mirror neurons seem to act as better single-neuron decoders. Although it is clear that population-level activity is needed for robust decoding, single-neuron decoding capacity may be used as a quantitative means to classify neurons in a given region.
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Ashena, N., Papadourakis, V., Raos, V., & Oztop, E. (2017). Real-time decoding of arm kinematics during grasping based on F5 neural spike data. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 10261 LNCS, pp. 261–268). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59072-1_31
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