Go/No-Go task engagement enhances population representation of target stimuli in primary auditory cortex

Sensory areas are thought to process stimulus information while higher-order processing occurs in association cortices. Here the authors report that during task engagement population activity in ferret primary auditory cortex shifts away from encoding stimulus features toward detection of the behavi...

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Main Authors: Sophie Bagur, Martin Averseng, Diego Elgueda, Stephen David, Jonathan Fritz, Pingbo Yin, Shihab Shamma, Yves Boubenec, Srdjan Ostojic
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018-06-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04839-9