{"id":2938,"date":"2024-02-11T12:21:15","date_gmt":"2024-02-11T02:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cognav.net\/?p=2938"},"modified":"2024-02-11T12:21:15","modified_gmt":"2024-02-11T02:21:15","slug":"whether-the-entorhinal-cortex-integrates-relational-information-about-changing-values-during-prospective-decision-making-using-a-grid-like-representation-of-an-abstract-value-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/?p=2938","title":{"rendered":"Whether the entorhinal cortex integrates relational information about changing values during prospective decision making using a grid-like representation of an abstract value space?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nitsch, A., Garvert, M.M., Bellmund, J.L.S.\u00a0<i>et al.<\/i>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-024-45127-z\"><strong>Grid-like entorhinal representation of an abstract value space during prospective decision making<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0<i>Nat Commun<\/i>\u00a0<b>15<\/b>, 1198 (2024). https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41467-024-45127-z<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Abstract<br \/>\n&#8220;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>How valuable a choice option is often changes over time, making the prediction of value changes an important challenge for decision making<\/strong><\/span>. Prior studies identified <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>a cognitive map in the hippocampal-entorhinal system that encodes relationships between states and enables prediction of future states, but does not inherently convey value during prospective decision making<\/strong><\/span>. In this fMRI study, participants predicted changing values of choice options in a sequence, forming a trajectory through an abstract two-dimensional value space. During this task, the entorhinal cortex exhibited a grid-like representation with an orientation aligned to the axis through the value space most informative for choices. A network of brain regions, including ventromedial prefrontal cortex, tracked the prospective value difference between options. These findings suggest that <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">the entorhinal grid system supports the prediction of future values by representing a cognitive map<\/span><\/strong>, <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">which might be used to generate lower-dimensional value signals to guide prospective decision making<\/span><\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nitsch, A., Garvert, M.M., Bellmund, J.L.S.\u00a0<i>et al.<\/i>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-024-45127-z\"><strong>Grid-like entorhinal representation of an abstract value space during prospective decision making<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0<i>Nat Commun<\/i>\u00a0<b>15<\/b>, 1198 (2024). https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41467-024-45127-z<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nitsch, A., Garvert, M.M., Bellmund, J.L.S.\u00a0et al.\u00a0Grid-like entorhinal representation of an abstract value space during prospective decision making.\u00a0Nat Commun\u00a015, 1198 (2024). https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41467-024-45127-z Abstract &#8220;How valuable a choice option is often changes over time, making the prediction of value changes an important challenge for decision making. Prior studies identified a cognitive map in the hippocampal-entorhinal system [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,346],"tags":[1286,914,1287,1104],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2938"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2939,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2938\/revisions\/2939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}