Converging prefrontal pathways support associative and perceptual features of conditioned stimuli

James D. Howard; Thorsten Kahnt; Jay A. Gottfried

doi:10.1038/ncomms11546

Nature Communications (May 2016)

Converging prefrontal pathways support associative and perceptual features of conditioned stimuli

James D. Howard,
Thorsten Kahnt,
Jay A. Gottfried

Affiliations

James D. Howard: Department of Neurology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
Thorsten Kahnt: Department of Neurology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
Jay A. Gottfried: Department of Neurology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11546
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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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.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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