Novelty, Salience, and Surprise Timing Are Signaled by Neurons in the Basal Forebrain

Kaining Zhang; Charles D. Chen; Ilya E. Monosov

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2018.11.012

Novelty, Salience, and Surprise Timing Are Signaled by Neurons in the Basal Forebrain

Kaining Zhang
, Charles D. Chen
, Ilya E. Monosov

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Abstract

Zhang et al. show that cells in the primate basal forebrain (BF), an area that mediates activity of the neocortex, predict the timing of events that capture attention, such as surprising reinforcements and novel objects. After a salient event, other BF cells’ burst activations rapidly signal higher-order statistical information about motivational salience, novelty, and surprise.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	134-142.e3
Journal	Current Biology
Volume	29
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2018.11.012
State	Published - Jan 7 2019

Keywords

attention
basal forebrain
motivation
neurophysiology
novelty
salience

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