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NEURON
Volume 111, Issue 15, Pages 2432-+Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2023.05.008
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This study shows that the frontal cortex of mice combines auditory and visual information for object localization, and this combination is additive and evolves with learning.
The brain can combine auditory and visual information to localize objects. However, the cortical substrates underlying audiovisual integration remain uncertain. Here, we show that mouse frontal cortex combines audi-tory and visual evidence; that this combination is additive, mirroring behavior; and that it evolves with learning. We trained mice in an audiovisual localization task. Inactivating frontal cortex impaired responses to either sensory modality, while inactivating visual or parietal cortex affected only visual stimuli. Recordings from >14,000 neurons indicated that after task learning, activity in the anterior part of frontal area MOs (sec-ondary motor cortex) additively encodes visual and auditory signals, consistent with the mice's behavioral strategy. An accumulator model applied to these sensory representations reproduced the observed choices and reaction times. These results suggest that frontal cortex adapts through learning to combine evidence across sensory cortices, providing a signal that is transformed into a binary decision by a downstream accumulator.
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