Our new paper shows that the flexible learning of attention sets is facilitated by noradrenergic receptor action. The paper “Noradrenergic alpha-2a receptor stimulation enhances prediction error signaling and updating of attention sets in anterior cingulate cortex and striatum” is published in Nature Communications was led by PhD alumnus Ali Hassani and found that neuronal firing […]
A long-standing open question is how brain circuits learn what information is behaviorally relevant and should be attended. We have a new key insight to this question published in the paper “Adaptive Reinforcement Learning is causally supported by Anterior Cingulate Cortex and Striatum” (Neuron, pdf). We found that brief 0.3 s electrical stimulation at the […]
We hosted a superb 2018 CPPC (Computational Properties of Prefrontal Cortex) Workshop at Vanderbilt. The workshop attracted more than 60 emerging and established (neuro-)scientists about how the prefrontal cortex works – See the program and more at the www link CPPC2018. This year had special sessions on value-based decision making and uncertainty, social cognition, functional […]
