About the Authors

Glenda Lassi

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience and Brain Technologies, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova, Italy

Simon T. Ball

Affiliation Medical Research Council Mammalian Genetics Unit, Harwell, United Kingdom

Silvia Maggi

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience and Brain Technologies, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova, Italy

Giovanni Colonna

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience and Brain Technologies, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova, Italy

Thierry Nieus

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience and Brain Technologies, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova, Italy

Cheryl Cero

Affiliation Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Alessandro Bartolomucci

Affiliation Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Jo Peters

Affiliation Medical Research Council Mammalian Genetics Unit, Harwell, United Kingdom

Valter Tucci

valter.tucci@iit.it

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience and Brain Technologies, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VT. Performed the experiments: GL STB SM GC TN CC AB JP VT. Analyzed the data: GL SM TN AB VT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AB JP VT. Wrote the paper: VT GL AB JP. Did all electrophysiological and behavioural experiments: GL. Created the animal model: STB JP. Analyzed the switching task data: SM TN. Contributed to the behavioral experiments: GC. Did the mRNA experiments: CC AB.