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
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Published: Nature Portfolio 2016
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:dd8e12410dca43dbbd821a318f6d03912021-12-02T14:39:50ZConverging prefrontal pathways support associative and perceptual features of conditioned stimuli10.1038/ncomms115462041-1723https://doaj.org/article/dd8e12410dca43dbbd821a318f6d03912016-05-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11546https://doaj.org/toc/2041-1723Animals 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.James D. HowardThorsten KahntJay A. GottfriedNature PortfolioarticleScienceQENNature Communications, Vol 7, Iss 1, Pp 1-11 (2016)
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Converging prefrontal pathways support associative and perceptual features of conditioned stimuli
description 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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title Converging prefrontal pathways support associative and perceptual features of conditioned stimuli
title_short Converging prefrontal pathways support associative and perceptual features of conditioned stimuli
title_full Converging prefrontal pathways support associative and perceptual features of conditioned stimuli
title_fullStr Converging prefrontal pathways support associative and perceptual features of conditioned stimuli
title_full_unstemmed Converging prefrontal pathways support associative and perceptual features of conditioned stimuli
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