Nature Communications (Sep 2020)

Phase of firing coding of learning variables across the fronto-striatal network during feature-based learning

  • Benjamin Voloh,
  • Mariann Oemisch,
  • Thilo Womelsdorf

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18435-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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The average spiking frequency in the fronto-striatal network encodes multiple types of learning-relevant information. Here, the authors show that populations of neurons in non-human primates also carry significant information in their phase-of-firing when learning-relevant outcomes are processed.