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SUBMITTER: Ebitz RB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5774994 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Neuron 20171228 2
In uncertain environments, decision-makers must balance two goals: they must "exploit" rewarding options but also "explore" in order to discover rewarding alternatives. Exploring and exploiting necessarily change how the brain responds to identical stimuli, but little is known about how these states, and transitions between them, change how the brain transforms sensory information into action. To address this question, we recorded neural activity in a prefrontal sensorimotor area while monkeys n ...[more]