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Top-down modulation of sensory processing and mismatch in the mouse posterior parietal cortex

Raltschev, Constanze
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Kasavica, Sergej
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Leonardon, Benjamin
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May 7, 2025
Nature Communications

An important function of the neocortex is to compare sensory feedback stimuli with internal predictions of the outside world and evoke mismatch responses to deviations, thus allowing expectations to be updated. The mechanisms behind sensory feedback mismatch and prediction formation however remain unclear. Here we created a learned association of an auditory-tactile stimulus sequence in awake head-fixed mice, where a sound predicted an up-coming whisker stimulus and introduced mismatches by omitting or altering the whisker stimulus intensity. We showed that layer 2/3 posterior parietal cortex (PPC) neurons could report stimulus sequence mismatches, as well as display neural correlates of expectation. Inhibition of PPC-projecting secondary motor cortex (M2) neurons suppressed these correlates, along with population mismatch responses. Hence, M2 can influence sensory processing in the PPC and potentially contribute to the prediction of sensory feedback from learned relationships within sequences of sensory stimuli.

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DOI
10.1038/s41467-025-58002-2
Author(s)
Raltschev, Constanze

University of Bern

Kasavica, Sergej

University of Bern

Leonardon, Benjamin

University of Bern

Nevian, Thomas

University of Bern

Sachidhanandam, Shankar  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Date Issued

2025-05-07

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

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Nature Communications
Volume

16

Article Number

4240(2025)

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

EPFL units
LSENS  
FunderFunding(s)Grant NumberGrant URL

Swiss National Science Foundation

182678

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May 12, 2025
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