Encarni Marcos

TL;DR: A context-independent coding of the response outcome with neurons maintaining similar selectivity in both task contexts is shown and the trial outcome could be well predicted from the activity of the same neurons in the two contexts.

TL;DR: Compared to an instantaneous decision making model, an integrator model improves performance and robustness to task complexity and it compresses the information stored in memory, suggesting a change in the way actions are retrieved from memory leading to self-generated actions.

TL;DR: This study extends the reactive layer with a biologically constrained model of allostatic control that allows the exible regulation of behavioral modes and focuses on the adaptive construction of discrete symbolic representations in the service of goal-oriented behavior.

TL;DR: Using an animal model of alcohol use disorders (AUD) and complementing diffusion-weighted (dw)-MRI with quantitative immunohistochemistry and electrophysiological recordings, the authors provided causal evidence that chronic intermittent alcohol exposure affects the microstructural integrity of the fimbria/fornix, decreasing myelin basic protein content, and reducing the effective communication from the hippocampus (HC) to the prefrontal cortex (PFC).

TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that under certain situations with dynamic sensory information, decisions are better explained by an urgency-gating mechanism than by an accumulation process that integrates the same mnemonic information.