@article{ref1,
title="Brain-wide representations of ongoing behavior: a universal principle?",
journal="Current opinion in neurobiology",
year="2020",
author="Kaplan, Harris S. and Zimmer, Manuel",
volume="64",
number="",
pages="60-69",
abstract="Recent neuronal activity recordings of unprecedented breadth and depth in worms, flies, and mice have uncovered a surprising common feature: brain-wide behavior-related signals. These signals pervade, and even dominate, neuronal populations thought to function primarily in sensory processing. Such convergent findings across organisms suggest that brain-wide representations of behavior might be a universal neuroscientific principle. What purpose(s) do these representations serve? Here we review these findings along with suggested functions, including sensory prediction, context-dependent sensory processing, and, perhaps most speculatively, distributed motor command generation. It appears that a large proportion of the brain's energy and coding capacity is used to represent ongoing behavior; understanding the function of these representations should therefore be a major goal in neuroscience research.<br><br>Copyright © 2020. Published by Elsevier Ltd.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0959-4388",
doi="10.1016/j.conb.2020.02.008",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.conb.2020.02.008"
}