Large-scale neural recordings call for new insights to link brain and behavior

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Listening for the Right Sounds

In this issue of Neuron, Rodgers and DeWeese (2014) developed a new paradigm in which rats had to select or ignore an auditory stimulus, depending on its context. The authors recorded neurons in primary auditory and medial prefrontal cortex. Surprisingly, they found that stimulus context had the largest effect in the moments before the stimulus was presented

Citric water as an alternative to water restriction for high-yield mouse behavior

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Mice alternate between discrete strategies during perceptual decision-making

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