Topic: active sensing strategy

From the Welsh tidy mouse to the New York City pizza rat, movement belies rodent intelligence. Akin to humans shaking a computer mouse to find the cursor on a screen, we show that mice develop an active sensing strategy in a visual perceptual decision-making task (The International Brian Laboratory, 2021). We demonstrate that mice wiggle a wheel that controls the movement of a visual stimulus during low contrast trials (6.25\%). Across N = 213 mice, we show that the low visual contrast accuracy increases by 9.0\% as wiggling increases. Moreover, mice wiggle the wheel at the temporal frequency