Hippocampal pattern separation supports reinforcement learning

When learning about rewards and threats in the environment, animals often need to learn the value associated with conjunctions of features, not just individual features. Here, the authors show that the hippocampus forms conjunctive representations that are dissociable from individual feature compone...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ian C. Ballard, Anthony D. Wagner, Samuel M. McClure
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-03-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08998-1