Nature Communications (Apr 2018)

Stable representation of sounds in the posterior striatum during flexible auditory decisions

  • Lan Guo,
  • William I. Walker,
  • Nicholas D. Ponvert,
  • Phoebe L. Penix,
  • Santiago Jaramillo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03994-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

Read online

Striatum mediates goal-oriented behaviors and habitual actions. This study shows that auditory information is represented by neuronal activity of the posterior tail of the dorsal striatum in mice, and that this brain region mediates rodent’s flexible decision making based on auditory cues.