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Mice are motivated to seek information of no extrinsic value. Recording neural activity in orbitofrontal cortex reveals a representation of the value of information that is distinct from the value of ...

Perception and action form a loop as an organism interacts with its environment. Here, we probe the interdependence between the two in the context of choice-history effects, the tendency of past choic...

Adaptive decision-making in dynamic environments requires flexible adjustment of learning speed to balance stability and flexibility. When outcomes...

Scientific Data - Dataset of cortical and subcortical single neuron activity during value-based tasks in macaque monkey

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Daphna Shohamy has been appointed codirector and CEO of the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, University President Lee Bollinger announced in an email to the community on Monday. Sh...

Neuronal firing patterns have significant spatiotemporal variability with no agreed-upon theoretical framework. Using a combined experimental and mode…

Disruptions in interoception may underlie anxiety, eating disorders, and other mental health ailments

A fundamental question in neuroscience is whether the brain uses specialized sub-systems for different types of decisions or relies on a unified decision-making network. The orbitofrontal cortex (OFC)...

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It's not every day that biologists announce an entirely new branch of life, and this one has been hiding under their noses for years.

Most behaviors involve neural dynamics in high-dimensional activity spaces. A common approach is to extract dimensions that capture task-related variability, such as those separating stimuli or choice...

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Nature Human Behaviour - In this study, Collins proposes an alternative dual-process (working memory and habit) model of reinforcement learning in humans.

Nature - Experiments with human volunteers and macaques show that expectations produced by probabilistic cueing of future sensory inputs shape motor circuit dynamics in order to increase the...

Recurrent neural networks are widely used to model brain dynamics. Tolmachev and Engel show that single-unit activation functions influence task solutions that emerge in trained networks, raising the ...

The University of Arizona was one of nine universities invited on October 1 by the U.S. Department of Education to provide feedback on their proposal to advance excellence in higher education.