Active sensing during a visual perceptual decision-making task

Abstract excerpt

From the Welsh tidy mouse to the New York City pizza rat, movement reveals rodent intelligence. Here, we show that some head-fixed mice developed an active sensing strategy in a visual perceptual decision-making task. Akin to humans shaking a computer mouse to find the cursor on a scree n, some mice wiggled a wheel that controlled the movement of a visual stimulus preferentially during low-contrast trials. When mi...

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• Behavior, Animal
• Cognition
• Emotions
• Exploratory Behavior
• Learning
• Mice, Inbred C57BL
• Mice, Knockout
• Social Behavior

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Literature Corpus work

cd0c289e-bf1a-5ad5-bec3-cbf22e8c6edf

DOI

10.1101/2025.08.27.672629