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Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Science
  • Decision-Making

Background:

  • Behavioral performance in decision-making tasks fluctuates with internal states like arousal and motivation.
  • The impact of these internal states on neural coding across different brain regions remains unclear.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how internal states influence neural activity in the auditory cortex (AC) and posterior parietal cortex (PPC) during a sound localization task.
  • To model transitions between different behavioral strategies and their neural correlates.

Main Methods:

  • Recorded neural activity from AC and PPC in mice performing a navigation-based sound localization task.
  • Modeled latent behavioral performance states, including optimal and suboptimal strategies.
  • Analyzed population activity patterns and neural coupling in relation to performance states.

Main Results:

  • Behavioral strategies transitioned between optimal and suboptimal states, characterized by bias and errors.
  • Internal performance states significantly modulated population activity in the posterior parietal cortex (PPC), an association area, but not the primary auditory cortex (AC).
  • Individual PPC neuron activity and neural coupling were more influenced by external inputs and behavior during suboptimal performance, while coupling was strongest in the optimal state.

Conclusions:

  • Neural activity in association cortex (PPC) is more dynamically linked to internal states than in sensory cortex (AC).
  • This suggests that association areas play a critical role in integrating internal states with sensory information for flexible decision-making.