Topic: choice preferences

Perceptual learning has been associated with altered sensory cortical representations in trained animals relative to naive ones. While there is substantial variability across animals in the degree of behavioral learning and the associated changes in neural representations, we lack an account of how experiences during learning may drive these differences. Here we address this question in the context of an auditory learning task, by combining experiments and computational modeling. Mice were progressively trained to classify tones as a single, center frequency or non-center by licking left or ri