The mouse, as a model organism to study the brain, gives us unprecedented experimental
access to the mammalian cerebral cortex. By determining the cortex's cellular composition …

Understanding how neurons of the striatum are formed and integrate into complex synaptic
circuits is essential to provide insight into striatal function in health and disease. In this …

The striatum integrates excitatory inputs from the cortex and the thalamus to control diverse
functions. Although the striatum is thought to consist of sensorimotor, associative and limbic …

With the increasing necessity of animal models in biomedical research, there is a vital need
to harmonise findings across species by establishing similarities and differences in rodent …

The dorsolateral striatum (DLS) receives excitatory inputs from both sensory and motor
cortical regions. In the neocortex, sensory responses are affected by motor activity, however …

Today, the basal ganglia (BG) network can be viewed as a three-layer neural network in
which the striatum and the subthalamic nucleus (STN) are the two BG input structures and …

The striatum plays critical roles in visually-guided decision-making and receives dense
axonal projections from midbrain dopamine neurons. However, the roles of striatal …

Perceptual decisions should depend on sensory evidence. However, such decisions are
also influenced by past choices and outcomes. These choice history biases may reflect …

Animals acquire behaviors through instrumental conditioning. Brain-machine interfaces
have used instrumental conditioning to reinforce patterns of neural activity directly …

Past reward associations may be signaled from different sensory modalities; however, it
remains unclear how different types of reward-associated stimuli modulate sensory …