Nature Communications (Jul 2020)

Decisions bias future choices by modifying hippocampal associative memories

  • Lennart Luettgau,
  • Claus Tempelmann,
  • Luca Franziska Kaiser,
  • Gerhard Jocham

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17192-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Decision-making is traditionally thought to be guided by memories of option values. Here, the authors challenge this view by showing that merely making a choice – even without experiencing any outcomes – alters neural representations of stimulus-reward associations and biases future decisions.