Dissociable roles of cortical excitation-inhibition balance during patch-leaving versus value-guided decisions

Here, the authors show that the balance between excitation and inhibition in two cortical areas is differentially related to maximizing immediate rewards, and to weighting the cost against long-term gains of moving to a new environment.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Luca F. Kaiser, Theo O. J. Gruendler, Oliver Speck, Lennart Luettgau, Gerhard Jocham
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-02-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20875-w