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ArticleeLife2016

Basal ganglia output reflects internally-specified movements.

Mario J Lintz, Gidon Felsen

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Article in eLife, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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2 authors.

Mario J LintzDepartment of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, United States.
Gidon FelsenDepartment of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-0745-8279

Funding

ZEBRAFISH TRANSGENIC CORE - ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS CORE CENTERP30NS048154 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · PI RIBERA, ANGELES BADELL · 2004 to 2020
$10.1M
Functional neural circuitry for decision making in the superior colliculusR01NS079518 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · PI GIDON S FELSEN · 2012 to 2026
$5.2M
NINDS NIH HHS P30 NS048154NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS079518
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

How movements are selected is a fundamental question in systems neuroscience. While many studies have elucidated the sensorimotor transformations underlying stimulus-guided movements, less is known about how internal goals - critical drivers of goal-directed behavior - guide movements. The basal ganglia are known to bias movement selection according to value, one form of internal goal. Here, we examine whether other internal goals, in addition to value, also influence movements via the basal ganglia. We designed a novel task for mice that dissociated equally rewarded internally-specified and stimulus-guided movements, allowing us to test how each engaged the basal ganglia. We found that activity in the substantia nigra pars reticulata, a basal ganglia output, predictably differed preceding internally-specified and stimulus-guided movements. Incorporating these results into a simple model suggests that internally-specified movements may be facilitated relative to stimulus-guided movements by basal ganglia processing.

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Models, NeurologicalMovementAnimalsBasal GangliaGoalsMiceRewardawake behaving electrophysiologybehaviordecision makingmouseneurosciencesubstantia nigra pars reticulata

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PMID27377356
PMCPMC4970866

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