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The role of the thalamus in human reinforcement learning

Collomb-Clerc, A.; Gueguen, M. C.; Minotti, L.; Kahane, P.; Navarro, V.; Bartolomei, F.; Carron, R.; Regis, J.; Chabardes, S.; Palminteri, S.; Bastin, J.

2022-11-24 neuroscience
10.1101/2022.11.23.517731 bioRxiv
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Although the thalamus is supposed to be involved in reinforcement-based decision-making, there is no direct evidence regarding the involvement of this subcortical structure in humans. To fill this gap, we leveraged rare intra-thalamic electrophysiological recordings in patients and found that temporally structured thalamic oscillations encode key learning signals. Our findings also provide neural insight into the computational mechanisms of action inhibition in punishment avoidance learning.

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