International Journal of Cognitive Research in Science, Engineering and Education (IJCRSEE)

IJCRSEE Editorial Team; Yuri Aleksandrov Iosifovich; Olga E. Svarnik; Andrei V. Rozhdestvin; Yuri V. Grinchenko

doi:10.23947/2334-8496-2022-10-2-163-171

Authors

Yuri Aleksandrov Iosifovich Institute of Psychology RAS, Moscow, Russian Federation https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2644-3016
Olga E. Svarnik Institute of Psychology RAS, Moscow, Russian Federation; Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow, Russian Federation https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0439-4532
Andrei V. Rozhdestvin Institute of Psychology RAS, Moscow, Russian Federation
Yuri V. Grinchenko Institute of Psychology RAS, Moscow, Russian Federation

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23947/2334-8496-2022-10-2-163-171

Keywords:

mental rehearsal, embodied cognition, posterior cingulate cortex, rabbit, decision making

Abstract

One of the ways to comprehend mental abilities of individuals is to examine their underlying neural processes and mechanisms. To explore the role of cingulate cortical neurons in “mental rehearsal“ immediately before every trial of appetitive instrumental task in well-trained animals, we analyzed recorded single-unit activity in relation to the task-relevant events during task trials and during delay periods inside each trial in the same animals. The results showed that neuronal activity in the rabbit posterior cingulate cortex during the delay consisted mostly of activity of those neurons which were specialized in relation to this task, though the delay periods were not intended to remember previous events. The data indicated that these neuronal groups are involved in the processes of unfolding planned future behavior. Sequences of neuronal events during the delay period (i.e. during” covert behavior” phase), used for decision making, depended on the role of neuron in overt behavior. During delay periods replays (or preplays) started with activity of very selective (“narrow selective”) neurons, specialized in relation to concrete behavioral acts, but late in the delay included activity of such “broadly selective” neurons which might have been related to movements similar in broad categories of behavior. Such results indicate that task-related neurons with different degree of selectivity are all involved in overt and covert phase of experience actualization, which might imply that decision making in rabbits is the embodied cognitive process.

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