Nature Communications (Apr 2020)

Prefrontal reinstatement of contextual task demand is predicted by separable hippocampal patterns

  • Jiefeng Jiang,
  • Shao-Fang Wang,
  • Wanjia Guo,
  • Corey Fernandez,
  • Anthony D. Wagner

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15928-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Spatial contexts are often predictive of the tasks to be performed in them (e.g., a kitchen predicts cooking). Here the authors show that the retrieval of task demand when encountering a spatial context depends on hippocampal-prefrontal interactions.