Reversal learning: It's just a phase

Carmen Varela; Matthew A Wilson

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2022.06.045

Reversal learning: It's just a phase

Curr Biol. 2022 Aug 8;32(15):R849-R851. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.06.045.

Authors

Carmen Varela¹, Matthew A Wilson²

Affiliations

¹ Psychology Department, Florida Atlantic University, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton, FL 33431, USA.
² Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. Electronic address: mwilson@mit.edu.

PMID: 35944488
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.06.045

Abstract

Being able to let go of behaviors that are no longer valuable and adopt actions that achieve the same outcome is fundamental for animal survival. A new study offers clues on the neural mechanisms that allow animals to reverse their behavior as needed.

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Reversal Learning*