Rewarding-unrewarding prediction signals under a bivalent context in the primate lateral hypothalamus

Author:

Noritake Atsushi,Nakamura Kae

Abstract

AbstractAnimals can expect rewards under equivocal situations. The lateral hypothalamus (LH) is thought to process motivational information by producing valence signals of reward and punishment. Despite rich studies using rodents and non-human primates, these signals have been assessed separately in appetitive and aversive contexts; therefore, it remains unclear what information the LH encodes in equivocal situations. To address this issue, macaque monkeys were conditioned under a bivalent context in which reward and punishment were probabilistically delivered, in addition to appetitive and aversive contexts. The monkeys increased approaching behavior similarly in the bivalent and appetitive contexts as the reward probability increased. They increased avoiding behavior under the bivalent and aversive contexts as the punishment probability increased, but the mean frequency was lower under the bivalent context than under the aversive context. The population activity correlated with these mean behaviors. Moreover, the LH produced fine prediction signals of reward expectation, uncertainty, and predictability consistently in the bivalent and appetitive contexts by recruiting context-independent and context-dependent subpopulations of neurons, while it less produced punishment signals in the aversive and bivalent contexts. Further, neural ensembles encoded context information and “rewarding-unrewarding” and “reward-punishment” valence. These signals may motivate individuals robustly in equivocal environments.

Funder

JSPS KAKENHI

MEXT Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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