Learning And Recognition Of Tactile Temporal Sequences By Mice And Humans

• Published in: bioRxiv
• Main Authors: Bale, Michael R, Bitzidou, Malamati, Pitas, Anna, Brebner, Leonie, Khazim, Lina, Anagnou, Stavros, Stevenson, Caitlin, Maravall, Miguel
• Format: Paper
• Language: English
• Published: Cold Spring Harbor Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press 31.03.2017; Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
• Edition: 1.1
• Subjects: Alternation learning; Neuroscience; Noise; Tactile discrimination learning; Tactile stimuli

The world around us is replete with stimuli that unfold over time. When we hear an auditory stream like music or speech or scan a texture with our fingertip, physical features in the stimulus are concatenated in a particular order, and this temporal patterning is critical to interpreting the stimulu...