Topic: behaviorally relevant information

The coordination of neural activity across brain areas during a specific behavior is often interpreted as neural communication involved in controlling the behavior. However, whether information relevant to the behavior is actually transferred between areas is often untested. Here, we developed and used information theoretic tools to identify, in neural activity, encoding and transmission of information relevant to behavior. We then used these new methods to quantify how motor cortex and striatum encode and exchange behaviorally relevant information about specific reach-to-grasp movement featur