SSA: Tactile Discrimination Learning in Mice

这个项目在跨学科的背景下解决了一个重要的问题：类似刺激的经验如何增加他们记忆的独特性？行为科学家在感知学习的背景下研究了这个问题，其中动物简单地暴露于类似的刺激（例如，两个纹理）将在以后更容易地在它们之间进行区分，而不是在两个新的刺激之间进行区分。神经科学家研究啮齿类动物的胡须系统和桶状皮层的经验变化，也对这一点进行了研究。本计画试图利用触须系统来了解啮齿类动物知觉学习的脑基础。

This project tackles an important question in an interdisciplinary context: How does experience with similar stimuli increase the distinctiveness of their memories? This question has been investigated by behavioural scientists in the context of perceptual learning, where animals given simple exposure to similar stimuli (e.g., two textures) will later discriminate between them more readily than between two novel stimuli. It has also been examined by neuroscientists studying the rodent whisker system and experience-based changes in the barrel cortex. This project attempts to understand the brain bases of perceptual learning in rodents using the whisker system.