Multiple sensory modalities contribute to texture discrimination in head-fixed mice
Ilaria Zanchi, Alejandro Sempere, Marco Celotto, Lorenzo Tausani, Dania Vecchia, Angelo Forli, Jacopo Bonato, Stefano Panzeri, Tommaso Fellin · FENS Forum 2024
Whisking, the process through which rodents move their whiskers to explore the physical space around them, is a stereotyped behaviour occurring in strict coordination with nose and head movements. Whisking frequency can be phased-locked to respiration rate and olfactory inputs have been recently shown to modulate whisker-dependent responses of a subset of neurons in the barrel cortex. However, the impact of olfactory signals on whisker-dependent behaviours remains poorly understood. Here, we hypothesized that olfactory inputs influence the animal’s behaviour in a Go/No-Go texture discriminatio
ePoster · Neuroscience