To understand navigation, the Harvey lab has been studying the posterior parietal cortex, a region near the back of the brain involved in spatial reasoning, as well as learning and planning movements.

To make judgements about an unknown sensory stimulus based on prior knowledge is a basic decision process, called perceptual decision-making. The posterior parietal cortex (PPC), one of the higher ...

To understand navigation, the Harvey lab has been studying the posterior parietal cortex, a region near the back of the brain involved in spatial reasoning, as well as learning and planning movements.

As the mice performed this task, the team recorded the activity of groups of neurons, roughly 50 at a time, from the auditory cortex -- which processes sound stimuli -- and the posterior parietal ...

The posterior parietal cortex ... When the same new tone stimuli were used to train the mice for two more days, PPC activity was no longer required for the animals to make correct choices.

The exact role of posterior parietal cortex (PPC) in visually directed reaching is unknown. We propose that, by building an internal representation of instantaneous hand location, PPC computes a ...

New research by neuroscientists at the University of Chicago shows that the posterior parietal cortex (PPC), an area of the brain often associated with planning movements and spatial awareness ...

In this task, the posterior parietal cortex was used a lot more than the prefrontal cortex - the latter of which is typically associated with higher level cognitive functions.

The posterior parietal cortex (PPC), a key region for decision-making, played a central role in prioritizing sensory information. When the PPC was turned off, mice could no longer make decisions ...