Data from: Neural interactions in the human frontal cortex dissociate reward and punishment learning

DOI10.5281/zenodo.11612904Zenodo11612904MaRDI QIDQ6700637FDOQ6700637

Dataset published at Zenodo repository.

Etienne Combrisson, Julien Bastin, Sylvain Rheims, Philippe Kahane, Andrea Brovelli, Ruggero Basanisi

Publication date: 12 June 2024

Description

How human prefrontal and insular regions interact while maximizing rewards and minimizing punishments is unknown. Capitalizing on human intracranial recordings, we demonstrate that the functional specificity toward reward or punishment learning is better disentangled by interactions compared to local representations. Prefrontal and insular cortices display non-selective neural populations to reward and punishment. The non-selective responses, however, give rise to context-specific interareal interactions. We identify a reward subsystem with redundant interactions between the orbitofrontal and ventromedial prefrontal cortices, with a driving role of the latter. In addition, we find a punishment subsystem with redundant interactions between the insular and dorsolateral cortices, with a driving role of the insula. Finally, switching between reward and punishment learning is mediated by synergistic interactions between the two subsystems. These results provide a unifying explanation of distributed cortical representations and interactions supporting reward and punishment learning.

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