The Hippocampus Plays A Fundamental Role In The Computing Of Uncertainty

The hippocampus, a key brain region for memory and learning, codes the degree of uncertainty of potential reward situations. This fundamental role has just been demonstrated by Giovanna Vanni-Mercier and her colleagues at the Centre de neuroscience cognitive (CNRS / Université Lyon 1), working with the medical epileptology team from the Neurological Hospital in Lyon.

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Filed under: Neurology / Neuroscience on May 3rd, 2009