| Title |
Data for Bergmann, Sehara et al., 2022 eNeuro (eye-whisker coordination on Airtrack) |
| Authors |
Bergmann,Ronny;Institut für Biologie, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, 10117 Germany.;ORCID:0000-0002-1477-7502
Sehara,Keisuke;Institut für Biologie, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, 10117 Germany.;ORCID:0000-0003-4368-8143
Dominiak,Sina E.;Institut für Biologie, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, 10117 Germany.
Colomb,Julien;Institut für Biologie, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, 10117 Germany.;ORCID:0000-0002-3127-5520
Kremkow,Jens;Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, 10117 Germany.;ORCID:0000-0001-7077-4528
Larkum,Matthew E.;Institut für Biologie, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, 10117 Germany.;ORCID:0000-0001-9799-2656
Sachdev,Robert N.S.;Institut für Biologie, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, 10117 Germany.;ORCID:0000-0002-6627-0199
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| Description |
Navigation through complex environments requires motor planning, motor preparation
and the coordination between multiple sensory–motor modalities.
For example, the stepping motion when we walk is coordinated with motion of
the torso, arms, head and eyes.
In rodents, movement of the animal through the environment is coordinated with whisking.
Even head fixed mice navigating a plus maze position their whiskers asymmetrically with
the bilateral asymmetry signifying the upcoming turn direction.
Here we report that, in addition to moving their whiskers, on every trial mice also move
their eyes conjugately in the direction of the upcoming turn.
Not only do mice move their eyes, but they coordinate saccadic eye movement
with the asymmetric positioning of the whiskers.
Our analysis shows that asymmetric positioning of whiskers predicted the turn direction
that mice will make at an earlier stage than eye movement.
Consistent with these results, our observations also revealed that whisker asymmetry
increases before saccadic eye movement.
Importantly, this work shows that when rodents plan for active behavior,
their motor plans can involve both eye and whisker movement.
We conclude that, when mice are engaged in and moving through complex real-world environments,
their behavioral state can be read out in the movement of both their whiskers and eyes.
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| License |
Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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| References |
Bergmann R, Sehara K, Dominiak SE, Kremkow J, Larkum ME, Sachdev RNS (2022) Coordination between eye movement and whisking in head fixed mice navigating a plus-maze. [] (IsSupplementTo)
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| Funding |
EU, EU.670118
EU, EU.327654276
EU, EU.720270
EU, EU.785907
EU, EU.945539
DFG, DFG.250048060
DFG, DFG.246731133
DFG, DFG.267823436
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| Keywords |
Neuroscience
Behavioral tracking
Motor coordination
Whiskers
Pupil tracking
Airtrack
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| Resource Type |
Dataset
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