Topic: motor signals

Auditory perception relies on predicting the acoustic consequences of our actions. The auditory cortex (AC) responds differently to expected versus unexpected self-generated sounds. Yet it remains untested whether AC dynamically updates predictions about self-generated sounds in a context-dependent manner.We developed a naturalistic audio-visual-motor virtual reality (VR) system for head-fixed mice. Real-time locomotion tracking was performed to provide artificial footstep sounds that were yoked to a precise phase of the step cycle, creating an ethological and experimentally manipulable form o