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    • Sensory processing

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    • Prior expectations influence attention and perception for efficient decision-making.
    • The lateral posterior (LP)/pulvinar nucleus projects to the Anterior Cingulate Cortex (ACC), implicated in attention and prediction.
    • The function of the LP-ACC pathway in using stimulus history for decisions remains unclear.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To investigate the role of the LP-ACC pathway in adaptive decision-making based on stimulus history.
    • To understand how the LP-ACC pathway processes information about differences in evidence between trials (| Δ Dir |).

    Main Methods:

    • Optogenetic manipulation of LP-ACC axons in mice during a visual discrimination task.
    • Two-photon calcium imaging of LP-ACC axons to analyze neural representations.
    • Analysis of behavioral data to assess the estimation and use of prior stimulus history (| Δ Dir |).

    Main Results:

    • Disrupting LP-ACC projections impaired the ability to estimate and utilize stimulus history, causing | Δ Dir |-dependent biases.
    • LP-ACC axon activity showed a low-dimensional organization of stimuli along a curved manifold.
    • This neural representation was scaled by | Δ Dir |, emphasizing deviations from prior evidence.

    Conclusions:

    • The LP-ACC pathway is essential for adaptive decision-making by evaluating stimuli relative to prior evidence.
    • This pathway plays a critical role in selecting and processing sensory information based on historical context.
    • The findings reveal a neural mechanism for integrating past information into current choices.