Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

Ventromedial prefrontal cortex compression during concept learning

  • Michael L. Mack,
  • Alison R. Preston,
  • Bradley C. Love

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13930-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Efficient learning is akin to goal-directed dimensionality reduction, in which relevant information is highlighted and irrelevant input is ignored. Here, the authors show that ventromedial prefrontal cortex uniquely supports such learning by compressing neural codes to represent goal-specific information.