Hippocampal pattern separation supports reinforcement learning

oleh: Ian C. Ballard, Anthony D. Wagner, Samuel M. McClure

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2019-03-01

Deskripsi

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 components.