Separating cognitive and motor processes in the behaving mouse.

ABSTRACT: The cognitive processes supporting complex animal behavior are closely associated with ubiquitous movements responsible for our posture, facial expressions, ability to actively sample our sensory environments, and other critical processes. These movements are strongly related to neural activity across much of the brain and are often highly correlated with ongoing cognitive processes, making it challenging to dissociate the neural dynamics that support cognitive processes from those supporting related movements. In such cases, a critical issue is whether cognitive processes are separable from related movements, or if they are driven by common neural mechanisms. Here, we demonstrate how the separability of cognitive and motor processes can be assessed, and, when separable, how the neural dyn

SUBMITTER: Hasnain MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10473744 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature