ArticleNature communications2020
Decisions bias future choices by modifying hippocampal associative memories.
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- Bayesian evaluation of diverging theories of episodic and affective memory distortions in dysphoria.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Removal of reinforcement improves instrumental performance in humans by decreasing a general action bias rather than unmasking learnt associations.PLoS computational biology · 2022Article
- The value of confidence: Confidence prediction errors drive value-based learning in the absence of external feedback.PLoS computational biology · 2022Article
- Memory for individual items is related to nonreinforced preference change.Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.) · 2021Article
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Abstract
Decision-making is guided by memories of option values. However, retrieving items from memory renders them malleable. Here, we show that merely retrieving values from memory and making a choice between options is sufficient both to induce changes to stimulus-reward associations in the hippocampus and to bias future decision-making. After allowing participants to make repeated choices between reward-conditioned stimuli, in the absence of any outcome, we observe that participants prefer stimuli they have previously chosen, and neglect previously unchosen stimuli, over otherwise identical-valued options. Using functional brain imaging, we show that decisions induce changes to hippocampal representations of stimulus-outcome associations. These changes are correlated with future decision biases. Our results indicate that choice-induced preference changes are partially driven by choice-induced modification of memory representations and suggest that merely making a choice - even without experiencing any outcomes - induces associative plasticity.
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