An essential role for the latero-medial secondary visual cortex in the acquisition and retention of visual perceptual learning in mice

• Published in: Nature communications Vol. 15; no. 1; pp. 7322 - 16
• Main Authors: Consorti, Alan, Sansevero, Gabriele, Di Marco, Irene, Floridia, Silvia, Novelli, Elena, Berardi, Nicoletta, Sale, Alessandro
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 25.08.2024; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 631/378; 631/378/2613; 64; 64/60; 9/30; Animals; Attention; Attention task; Choice learning; Feedback; Female; Humanities and Social Sciences; Information processing; Learning; Learning - physiology; Male; Males; Mice; Mice, Inbred C57BL; multidisciplinary; Neurons - physiology; Photic Stimulation; Primary Visual Cortex - physiology; Retention; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Sensory integration; Somatosensory cortex; Visual cortex; Visual Cortex - physiology; Visual discrimination; Visual discrimination learning; Visual pathways; Visual perception; Visual Perception - physiology; Visual stimuli; Visual tasks

Perceptual learning refers to any change in discrimination abilities as a result of practice, a fundamental process that improves the organism’s response to the external environment. Visual perceptual learning (vPL) is supposed to rely on functional rearrangements in brain circuity occurring at earl...