Jon Arnold

The paper develops a task and models to show that motor cortex and striatum jointly specify movement parameters during a reach-to-pull action in mice.

The paper investigates whether perceptual learning in mice is due to supervised or unsupervised learning by analyzing neural activity in visual cortex during task learning and unrewarded exposure.

This study shows that the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) is essential for making decisions about hunger and thirst in mice, particularly when need states are variable, and that outcome evaluation is critical for accurate decision-making.