Brain's Context-Based Decision-Making

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Resolving ambiguity: How the brain uses context in decision-making and learning

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University of California - Santa Barbara researchers say the brain uses context in decision-making and learning.

The study is the first to causally test the relative contributions of the orbitofrontal cortex and hippocampus in this contextual disambiguation process.

It's a single stimulus, but depending on background circumstances, it's going to be processed differently and you might decide to engage with it differently.

It took more than four months of training for rats to learn the initial context-dependent pairs, Keflin said.

Once equipped with a cognitive map, rats could learn new relationships in just a few days .

OFC is essential for using contextual knowledge to regulate behavior, DH is more important for facilitating new contextual learning.

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