Topic: spontaneous movement

Neuronal activation throughout the cortex correlates strongly with the animal’s movement. Movement-related cortical activity in the sensory areas is thought to function as corollary discharge and to modulate sensory processing during self-generated motor activity. However, the exact role, neuronal circuits, and cortical computations associated with the cortex-wide motor signals are not fully elucidated. Here, we investigated the active neuronal properties during spontaneous movement episodes in the primary somatosensory (S1) and the primary motor (M1) cortices of awake mice. Whole-cell patch-c