Nature Communications (Jan 2019)

Feature-specific prediction errors and surprise across macaque fronto-striatal circuits

  • Mariann Oemisch,
  • Stephanie Westendorff,
  • Marzyeh Azimi,
  • Seyed Alireza Hassani,
  • Salva Ardid,
  • Paul Tiesinga,
  • Thilo Womelsdorf

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-08184-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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In order to adjust expectations efficiently, prediction errors need to be associated with the features that gave rise to the unexpected outcome. Here, the authors show that neurons in anterior fronto-striatal networks encode prediction errors that are specific to feature values of different stimulus dimensions.