Population coding of valence in the basolateral amygdala

Abstract

It is unclear how the basolateral amygdala (BLA) contributes to behaviors driven by aversive or appetitive stimuli. Here, authors simultaneously record the activities of ensembles of BLA neurons in behaving mice to show that distinct but spatially intermingled BLA populations respond to either reward or punishment and that associative learning transforms BLA population activities to represent specific valences