Nature Communications (Mar 2023)

Expectation violations enhance neuronal encoding of sensory information in mouse primary visual cortex

  • Matthew F. Tang,
  • Ehsan Kheradpezhouh,
  • Conrad C. Y. Lee,
  • J. Edwin Dickinson,
  • Jason B. Mattingley,
  • Ehsan Arabzadeh

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36608-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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In order to efficiently process incoming sensory information, our brain is thought to make predictions about future events. Here, the authors show how neurons in the mouse visual cortex enhance their representation of unpredicted surprising events.