PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Satoshi Kuroki
AU  - Takuya Isomura
TI  - Common features in plastic changes rather than constructed structures in recurrent neural network prefrontal cortex models
AID  - 10.1101/181297
DP  - 2017 Jan 01
TA  - bioRxiv
PG  - 181297
4099  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/08/28/181297.short
4100  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/08/28/181297.full
AB  - We have flexible control over our cognition depending on the context or surrounding environments. The prefrontal cortex (PFC) controls this cognitive flexibility; however, the detailed underlying mechanisms remain unclear. Recent developments in machine learning techniques have allowed simple recurrent neural network PFC models to perform human- or animal-like behavioral tasks. These systems allow us to acquire parameters, which we could not in biological experiments, for performing the tasks. We compared four models, in which a flexible cognition task, called context-dependent integration task, was performed; subsequently, we searched for common features. In all the models, we observed that high plastic synapses were concentrated in the small neuronal population and the more concentrated neuronal units contributed further to the performance. However, there were no common properties in the constructed structures. These results suggest that plastic changes can be more general and important to accomplish cognitive tasks than features of the constructed structures.