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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Luka Gantar\nhosted by Jösch Group\nAbstract: Sensory
  systems have evolved to solve computational challenges that animals face 
 during behaviour in their natural environments. To illuminate how sensory 
 cortex operates under such conditions\, we investigated the function of ne
 urons in whisker-related Somatosensory Cortex (wS1) of freely moving mice\
 , engaged in tactile exploratory behaviour. By recording neural activity f
 rom wS1 whilst tracking the mouse body in 3D\, we found that wS1 neurons a
 re substantially modulated by body state (configuration of individual body
 -parts and their derivatives)\, even in the absence of whisker afferent in
 put. Most neurons were modulated by multiple dimensions of body state\, wi
 th the most prominently encoded being the angle of the head to the body an
 d locomotion speed. Overall\, our data suggest that sensory cortex functio
 ns as an embodied representation\, which integrates signals from its assoc
 iated sense organ within a body schema.
LOCATION:Office Bldg West / Ground floor / Foyer seminar room\, ISTA
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SUMMARY:Luka Gantar: Embodied processing in whisker somatosensory cortex du
 ring exploratory behaviour in freely moving mice
URL:https://talks-calendar.ista.ac.at/events/5472
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