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  • Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Decision Science

Background:

  • Decision-making relies on subjective value, formed through experience.
  • The brain must encode and maintain subjective value for effective decision-making.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Investigate area specificity and plasticity of value coding in the cortex.
  • Determine the role of specific cortical areas in encoding value and history signals.

Main Methods:

  • Trained mice in a value-based decision task.
  • Imaged neural activity in 6 cortical areas with cellular resolution.
  • Used acute inactivation of the retrosplenial cortex (RSC).

Main Results:

  • History- and value-related signals were widespread but varied in strength and temporal patterns across cortical areas.
  • The retrosplenial cortex (RSC) uniquely encoded history- and value-related signals with persistent activity patterns in expert mice.
  • RSC's unique encoding emerged during learning, with increased signals for distant reward history.
  • RSC inactivation selectively impaired reward-history-based decision strategies.

Conclusions:

  • The retrosplenial cortex (RSC) plays a critical role in flexibly updating history coding.
  • RSC persistently encodes value-related signals to support adaptive decision-making.
  • Neural circuits in the cortex exhibit plasticity in value and history signal representation.