title: Vision: how to train visual cortex to predict reward time.
abstract: Little is known about how the brain learns to anticipate the timing of reward. A new study demonstrates that optogenetic activation of basal forebrain input is sufficient to train reward timing activity in the primary visual cortex.
authors.affiliation: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, 11724, USA; Laboratory of Cerebral Cortex Research, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, H-1083, Hungary.
authors.forename: Balázs
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Hangya
authors.affiliation: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, 11724, USA. Electronic address: kepecs@cshl.edu.
authors.forename: Adam
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kepecs
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D012201:Reward; D013997:Time Factors; D014785:Vision, Ocular; D014793:Visual Cortex / Q000502:physiology*