Topic: movement timing

Goal-directed behaviors involve coordinated activity across neurons representing different cognitive variables that guide the appropriate action selection. Here we used a novel naturalistic behavioral paradigm that does not require pre-training, which allowed studying the underlying neural activity from the very first day of behavior. This paradigm involves tongue-reaching movements towards multiple target-positions, followed by a variable reward outcome. The target was presented on a grid (typically consisting of 4x4 possible target positions) in front of the mouse’s face. We used calcium ima