An ensemble code in medial prefrontal cortex links prior events to outcomes during learning

The prefrontal cortex is implicated in learning the rules of an environment through trial and error. But it is unclear how such learning is related to the prefrontal cortex’s role in short-term memory. Here we ask if the encoding of short-term memory in prefrontal cortex is used by rats learning dec...

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Main Authors: Maggi, Silvia, Peyrache, Adrien, Humphries, Mark D.
Format: Article
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/53063/