Here, the authors show that during a discrimination task, the mouse visual cortex does not encode the orientations of the cues but a categorical probability predicting the animal’s choice.

previously inaccessible layer of the visual cortex that communicates with an even deeper layer of the brain called the thalamus, and doing so for more than an hour as each mouse ran, slept or woke.

More information: Xu Han et al, Higher-order cortical and thalamic pathways shape visual processing streams in the mouse cortex, Current Biology (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2024.10.048 Karolina Z.

Researchers at Cornell University have developed ‘MouseGoggles’, a miniature VR headset with eye-tracking for mice, which was ...