Nature Communications (Jun 2019)

Learning of distant state predictions by the orbitofrontal cortex in humans

  • G. Elliott Wimmer,
  • Christian Büchel

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10597-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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In order to make optimal choices, it is adaptive for the brain to build a model of the world to enable predictions about likely later events. Here, the authors show that activity across learning in the orbitofrontal cortex comes to represent expected states, up to 30 s in the future.