Topic: visual sensations

In environments rich with complex multisensory stimuli, flexible and effective behaviors rely on our ability to transfer learned associations across sensory modalities. Here, we explored the intertwined cortical representations of whisker and visual sensations in mice, focusing on their role in cross-modal transfer learning. Mice trained to differentiate between the stimulations of two vertically-aligned whiskers could seamlessly transfer this learned behavior to distinguish between two visual stimuli based on their vertical positioning. Generalization was achieved only when the spatial reward