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Retrosplenial cortex enables context-dependent goal-directed sensorimotor transformation.

Pol Bech, Robin F Dard, Jules Lebert, Lana Smith, Axel Bisi, Anthony Renard, Sylvain Crochet, Carl C H Petersen

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Article in eLife, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

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Authors and funding

8 authors.

Pol Bech *Laboratory of Sensory Processing, Brain Mind Institute, School of Life Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.
Robin F Dard *Laboratory of Sensory Processing, Brain Mind Institute, School of Life Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0000-6221-0407
Jules LebertLaboratory of Sensory Processing, Brain Mind Institute, School of Life Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.
Lana SmithLaboratory of Sensory Processing, Brain Mind Institute, School of Life Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.
Axel BisiLaboratory of Sensory Processing, Brain Mind Institute, School of Life Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.
Anthony RenardLaboratory of Sensory Processing, Brain Mind Institute, School of Life Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.
Sylvain Crochet *Laboratory of Sensory Processing, Brain Mind Institute, School of Life Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2965-8899
Carl C H Petersen *Laboratory of Sensory Processing, Brain Mind Institute, School of Life Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3344-4495

Funding

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung 310030_219343Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung 31003A_182010Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung TMAG-3_209271
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The ability to dynamically adjust a behavioral response to a stimulus depending on context is of critical importance for animals. To investigate the neural basis supporting context-dependent sensory processing, we developed a behavioral task in which mice changed their response to a single whisker deflection according to a continuously present contextual cue. Through unbiased optogenetic inactivation mapping, we found that neuronal activity in sensory and motor cortices contributed to task execution and, interestingly, we uncovered an unexpected role of the retrosplenial cortex (RSC) for contextual integration. Widefield calcium imaging revealed that the RSC was the first dorsal cortical area to show context discrimination in response to whisker stimulation, followed by the whisker motor cortex. Finally, we combined optogenetic inactivation with calcium imaging to define causal context-dependent changes in sensorimotor processing. Our cortex-wide mapping experiments thus begin to define key cortical nodes for context-dependent sensorimotor transformation and highlight an important contribution of RSC.

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Gyrus CinguliMotor CortexSomatosensory CortexAnimalsBrain MappingGoalsMiceNeuronsOptogeneticsVibrissaecontext-dependent sensory processingfrontal cortexmouseneuroscienceoptical imagingretrosplenial cortexsomatosensory cortexwhisker sensory perception

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PMID42372004
PMCPMC13313688

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