SSA: Tactile Discrimination Learning in Mice

这个项目解决了跨学科背景下的一个重要问题：类似刺激的经历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，在感知学习中，动物被简单地暴露在相似的刺激（例如，两种纹理）中，之后会比两种新的刺激更容易区分它们。研究啮齿动物须系统和桶状皮层经验变化的神经科学家也对其进行了研究。本项目试图利用晶须系统来了解啮齿动物感知学习的大脑基础。

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.