Neuroscience: Setting the neurobiological occasions for hierarchical learning and inference.

Curr Biol

Department of Psychology, Concordia University, Montreal, QC H4B 1R6, Canada. Electronic address:

Published: December 2024

Hierarchical associations help animals navigate the environment by using contextual and latent states to guide learning and behavior. Chemogenetic inactivation in an occasion setting task reveals that orbitofrontal cortex is essential for implementing a hierarchical task structure, yet both orbitofrontal cortex and dorsal hippocampus are required for new learning based on the established task structure.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.10.060DOI Listing

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