Converging prefrontal pathways support associative and perceptual features of conditioned stimuli

Animals often need to form specific associations between perceptually similar stimuli and the different outcomes they may predict. Howard et al. find that the human brain accomplishes this via enhanced coupling between stable codes of sensory features and flexible codes of stimulus reward value.

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Main Authors: James D. Howard, Thorsten Kahnt, Jay A. Gottfried
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2016
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/dd8e12410dca43dbbd821a318f6d0391
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