Value representation in the monkey hippocampus

Sofia M Landi; Elizabeth A Buffalo

doi:10.1016/j.tics.2021.10.007

Value representation in the monkey hippocampus

Trends Cogn Sci. 2022 Jan;26(1):4-5. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2021.10.007. Epub 2021 Oct 27.

Authors

Sofia M Landi¹, Elizabeth A Buffalo²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA; Washington National Primate Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA.
² Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA; Washington National Primate Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].

Abstract

The hippocampus is thought to form cognitive maps across different domains of experience, including space and time. Recent work by Knudsen and Wallis identifies a map of abstract value space in the monkey hippocampus. We consider how these abstract variables might contribute to a comprehensive hippocampal representation of ongoing experience.

Keywords: cognitive map; place cell; reward learning.

MeSH terms

Animals
Haplorhini
Hippocampus*
Humans
Space Perception*

Abstract

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