Nature Communications (Jul 2018)

Task-dependent representations of stimulus and choice in mouse parietal cortex

  • Gerald N. Pho,
  • Michael J. Goard,
  • Jonathan Woodson,
  • Benjamin Crawford,
  • Mriganka Sur

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05012-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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The precise role of PPC in transforming sensory signals to relevant actions is not yet clear. Here, the authors show that unlike V1, which is largely driven by visual input, PPC is strongly task-dependent and exhibits a mixture of stimulus and choice signals in a visual decision task.