Learning Recruits Higher Cortical Areas into Rapid Sensorimotor Streams

Eric A Finkel; Daniel H O'Connor

doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2017.12.026

Learning Recruits Higher Cortical Areas into Rapid Sensorimotor Streams

Neuron. 2018 Jan 3;97(1):1-2. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2017.12.026.

Authors

Eric A Finkel¹, Daniel H O'Connor²

Affiliations

¹ Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience, Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute, Brain Science Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
² Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience, Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute, Brain Science Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA. Electronic address: dan.oconnor@jhmi.edu.

PMID: 29301096
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2017.12.026

Abstract

How the brain maps sensory information to adaptive behavior remains unresolved. A new study in this issue of Neuron (Le Merre et al., 2017) uncovers learning-related recruitment of higher cortical areas into the rapid sensory processing stream that links a whisker stimulus to rewarded action.

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MeSH terms

Animals
Goals*
Hippocampus
Learning*
Prefrontal Cortex
Reward