For the first time, the team reveals how mice ... to handle sensory processing, such as interpreting sounds or sights. However, the study shows that this part of the brain is also crucial for forming ...

"The field of neuroscience has made great progress decoding motor ... sensory inputs; it is also crucial to form associations between sensory cues and reinforced actions." When the mice continued ...

Thus, Syngap1 mutations linked to the human disorder accentuate motor feedback into a sensory cortex that improperly codes for touch experiences." In the mouse model examined by Rumbaugh and his ...

"By utilizing optogenetics, we were able to activate specific sensory ... at the Motor Circuits Laboratory at the University of Ottawa, involved generating a unique transgenic mouse model and ...

"The field of neuroscience has made great progress decoding motor activity ... First, the mice learned in 20 to 40 tries, "extraordinarily fast," according to Kuchibhotla. And second, this learning ...

In one case, a child ignored his broken finger for four days. In follow-up experiments with mice, Rumbaugh’s team found corresponding changes in the part of the brain that processes sensory ...