Topic: sensorimotor prediction

Predicting the sensory consequences of one’s actions is critical to perception and action in dynamically changing environments. For several established sensorimotor behaviours, such as locomotion and vocalizations, neural correlates of this prediction have been reported throughout sensory cortex. Oftentimes, however, the sensory consequences of an action are abstract, context-dependent, and newly learned, such as when one learns to play an instrument. How does cortex represent such complex sensorimotor rules? To investigate this question, we developed a task in which mice manipulated the frequ