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JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 31, Issue 31, Pages 11351-11361Publisher
SOC NEUROSCIENCE
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.6689-10.2011
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- Fight for Sight [1779]
- European Research Council
- German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina [BMBF-LPD9901/8-165, DFG Exec 307]
- Royal Society
- Fight for Sight [1779/80] Funding Source: researchfish
- Medical Research Council [G0800791] Funding Source: researchfish
- MRC [G0800791] Funding Source: UKRI
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The mouse is becoming a key species for research on the neural circuits of the early visual system. To relate such circuits to perception, one must measure visually guided behavior and ask how it depends on fundamental stimulus attributes such as visual contrast. Using operant conditioning, we trained mice to detect visual contrast in a two-alternative forced-choice task. After 3-4 weeks of training, mice performed hundreds of trials in each session. Numerous sessions yielded high-quality psychometric curves from which we inferred measures of contrast sensitivity. In multiple sessions, however, choices were influenced not only by contrast, but also by estimates of reward value and by irrelevant factors such as recent failures and rewards. This behavior was captured by a generalized linear model involving not only the visual responses to the current stimulus but also a bias term and history terms depending on the outcome of the previous trial. We compared the behavioral performance of the mice to predictions of a simple decoder applied to neural responses measured in primary visual cortex of awake mice during passive viewing. The decoder performed better than the animal, suggesting that mice might not use optimally the information contained in the activity of visual cortex.
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