Topic: whisker-based tactile detection

Animals adapt their behaviour to novel situations, quickly learning to respond appropriately to external stimuli. While different brain areas are thought to make distinct contributions to goal-directed behaviour, it remains unclear how the brain as a network of areas enables goal-directed learning. Here, we developed a behavioural paradigm that allows us to probe rapid reward-based sensorimotor learning in mice, overcoming the limitations of longitudinal recordings. Mice are first pretrained on an auditory detection task and, once expert, are transferred to a whisker-based tactile detection ta