Rapid emergence of latent knowledge in the sensory cortex drives learning
Celine Drieu, Ziyi Zhu, Joy Wang, Kishore V. Kuchibhotla, Kylie Fuller, Aaron Wang, Sarah Elnozahy · COSYNE 2025
Rapid learning confers significant advantages to animals in ecological environments. Despite the need for speed, animals appear to only slowly learn to associate rewarded actions with predictive cues. This slow learning is thought to be supported by a gradual expansion of predictive cue representation in the sensory cortex. However, evidence is growing that animals learn more rapidly than classical performance measures suggest, challenging the prevailing model of sensory cortical plasticity. Here, we investigated the relationship between learning and sensory cortical representations. We traine
ePoster · Neuroscience