Neuronal Substrate of Choice in the Rat Whisker System

人类和其他动物可以通过将刺激或行动与随之而来的积极和消极奖励联系起来，来优化他们的目标导向行为。动物是如何产生这种联想，并在这种联想常常不确定、有时相互矛盾、不断变化的自然环境中做出决定的？本项目以大鼠须系统为动物模型，研究知觉决策的神经元基础和环境的作用。

Humans and other animals can optimise their goal-directed behaviour by linking stimuli or actions to consequent positive and negative rewards. How does an animal generate such associations, and make decisions in the natural environment where the associations are often uncertain, at times contradictory, and continuously changing? This project uses rat whisker system as an animal model to identify the neuronal basis of perceptual decision making and the role of context.