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• Article | 24 February 2021

  Reset of hippocampal–prefrontal circuitry facilitates learning

  Exposure to a novel experience can ‘reset’ connections between the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex in mice, allowing them to overcome an existing learned behaviour and to replace it with a new one.

  • Alan J. Park
  • , Alexander Z. Harris
  •  & Joshua A. Gordon

• Article | 27 January 2021

  Single-neuronal predictions of others’ beliefs in humans

  Recordings of cells in the human dorsomedial prefrontal cortex identify a population of neurons that encode information about others’ beliefs and distinguish them from self-belief-related representations, providing insight into cellular-level processing underlying human theory of mind.

  • Mohsen Jamali
  • , Benjamin L. Grannan
  •  & Ziv M. Williams

• Article | 06 January 2021

  Activation and disruption of a neural mechanism for novel choice in monkeys

  The primate medial frontal cortex has a key role in mediating the ability to choose between new options based on little or no direct experience.

  • Alessandro Bongioanni
  • , Davide Folloni
  •  & Matthew F. S. Rushworth

• Article | 23 December 2020

  Evolving schema representations in orbitofrontal ensembles during learning

  Rats learning to solve a succession of odour-sequence problems developed an orbitofrontal cortical representation that reflected the structure—or schema—common across problems.

  • Jingfeng Zhou
  • , Chunying Jia
  •  & Geoffrey Schoenbaum

• Research Highlights | 05 December 2012

  Simulated brain solves problems

• Research Highlights | 09 June 2010

  Animal cognition: Colder is cleverer