Involvement of Striatal Direct Pathway in Visual Spatial Attention in Mice.

ABSTRACT: The basal ganglia are implicated in a range of perceptual functions [1], in addition to their well-known role in the regulation of movement [2]. One unifying explanation for these diverse roles is that the basal ganglia control the level of commitment to particular motor or cognitive outcomes based on the behavioral context [3, 4]. If this explanation is applicable to the allocation of visual spatial attention, then the involvement of basal ganglia circuits should incorporate the subject's expectations about the spatial location of upcoming events as well as the routing of visual signals that guide the response. From the viewpoint of signal detection theory, these changes in the level of commitment might correspond to shifts in the subject's decision criterion, one of two distinct componen

SUBMITTER: Wang L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7725855 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature