Reinforcement learning approaches to hippocampus-dependent flexible spatial navigation.

ABSTRACT: Humans and non-human animals show great flexibility in spatial navigation, including the ability to return to specific locations based on as few as one single experience. To study spatial navigation in the laboratory, watermaze tasks, in which rats have to find a hidden platform in a pool of cloudy water surrounded by spatial cues, have long been used. Analogous tasks have been developed for human participants using virtual environments. Spatial learning in the watermaze is facilitated by the hippocampus. In particular, rapid, one-trial, allocentric place learning, as measured in the delayed-matching-to-place variant of the watermaze task, which requires rodents to learn repeatedly new locations in a familiar environment, is hippocampal dependent. In this article, we review some computatio

SUBMITTER: Tessereau C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8042550 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature