A neural network for information seeking

Animals resolve uncertainty by seeking knowledge about the future. How the brain controls this is unclear. The authors show that a network including primate anterior cingulate cortex and basal ganglia encodes opportunities to gain information about uncertain rewards and mediates information seeking.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: J. Kael White, Ethan S. Bromberg-Martin, Sarah R. Heilbronner, Kaining Zhang, Julia Pai, Suzanne N. Haber, Ilya E. Monosov
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-11-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13135-z