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.

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.

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.

"But almost every single mouse, the first time they see it with ... Results from the primary visual cortex confirmed that the goggles form sharp, high-contrast images that mice can see, and ...

High-resolution blood oxygen level-dependent functional magnetic resonance imaging enables brain-wide mapping of activated regions during sensory stimulation in awake mice, including associated areas, ...