Impact of barrel cortex lesions and sensory deprivation on perceptual decision-making: Insights from computer vision and time series clustering of freely moving behavioral strategies
Léa Peltier, Aron de Miranda, Alexy Louis, Nicolas Chenouard, Frédéric Gambino · FENS Forum 2024
The role of the whisker-related primary somatosensory cortex (wS1) in perceptual decisions remains a topic of ongoing debate. While previous research has linked wS1 to stimulus detection, discrimination, and the coordination of whisker movements during active touch and associative learning in simple stimulus detection tasks, its contribution to behavior becomes crucial as cognitive load and perceptual demands escalate. The gap-crossing task has thus emerged as a model for studying wS1 functions, requiring freely-moving mice to actively employ their whiskers to locate a target platform after a
ePoster · Neuroscience