Topic: whisker representations

Animals use previous knowledge to flexibly guide behaviour, quickly learning to respond appropriately to novel stimuli, for example using rewards as a teaching signal. Task-relevant information and behavioural states are represented globally in the brain, which suggests distributed representations during sensorimotor learning. However, these brain-wide representations have been measured in distinct expert or naive animals with ”stationary” representations. It remains unclear how de novo learning of a sensorimotor transformation involves distributed, parallel activity throughout the brain. To a