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- Title
Reinstatement of Cortical Outcome Representations during Higher-Order Learning.
- Authors
Luettgau, Lennart; Porcu, Emanuele; Tempelmann, Claus; Jocham, Gerhard
- Abstract
Naturalistic learning scenarios are characterized by infrequent experience of external feedback to guide behavior. Higher-order learning mechanisms like second-order conditioning (SOC) may allow stimuli that were never experienced together with reinforcement to acquire motivational value. Despite its explanatory potential for real-world learning, surprisingly little is known about the neural mechanism underlying such associative transfer of value in SOC. Here, we used multivariate cross-session, cross-modality searchlight classification on functional magnetic resonance imaging data obtained from humans during SOC. We show that visual first-order conditioned stimuli (CS) reinstate cortical patterns representing previously paired gustatory outcomes in the lateral orbitofrontal cortex (OFC). During SOC, this OFC region showed increased functional covariation with amygdala, where neural pattern similarity between second-order CS and outcomes increased from early to late stages of SOC. Our data suggest a mechanism by which motivational value is conferred to stimuli that were never paired with reinforcement.
- Publication
Cerebral Cortex, 2022, Vol 32, Issue 1, p93
- ISSN
1047-3211
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/cercor/bhab196