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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2019-03-01
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Series: | Nature Communications |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08998-1 |