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This important study combines optogenetic manipulations and wide-field imaging to show that the retrosplenial cortex controls behavioral responses to whisker deflection in a context-dependent manner.

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Pupil dilation provides a physiological readout of information gain during the brain's internal process of belief updating in the context of associative learning.