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Cerebral Cortex, Vol. 10, No. 9, 910-923, September 2000
© 2000 Oxford University Press

Synaptic Mechanisms and Network Dynamics Underlying Spatial Working Memory in a Cortical Network Model

Albert Compte, Nicolas Brunel1, Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic2 and Xiao-Jing Wang

Volen Center for Complex Systems, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02254 and , 2 Section of Neurobiology, Yale University School of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT 06510, USA

Single-neuron recordings from behaving primates have established a link between working memory processes and information-specific neuronal persistent activity in the prefrontal cortex. Using a network model endowed with a columnar architecture and based on the physiological properties of cortical neurons and synapses, we have examined the synaptic mechanisms of selective persistent activity underlying spatial working memory in the prefrontal cortex. Our model reproduces the phenomenology of the oculomotor delayed-response experiment of Funahashi et al. (S. Funahashi, C.J. Bruce and P.S. Goldman-Rakic, Mnemonic coding of visual space in the monkey's dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. J Neurophysiol 61:331–349, 1989). To observe stable spontaneous and persistent activity, we find that recurrent synaptic excitation should be primarily mediated by NMDA receptors, and that overall recurrent synaptic interactions should be dominated by inhibition. Isodirectional tuning of adjacent pyramidal cells and interneurons can be accounted for by a structured pyramid-to-interneuron connectivity. Robust memory storage against random drift of the tuned persistent activity and against distractors (intervening stimuli during the delay period) may be enhanced by neuromodulation of recurrent synapses. Experimentally testable predictions concerning the neural basis of working memory are discussed.


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