Topic: abstract states

The hippocampus is thought to organise knowledge about the world by binding stimuli into representations of discrete states, which can be utilised to guide flexible behaviour. In the laboratory, such states are often characterised as distinct spatial locations and contexts. However, real-life experiences are often defined by latent non-spatial contexts. Despite a hypothesised key role, the extent to which the hippocampus may form representations of such abstract states is unclear. To study the role of hippocampus in such latent state representations, we used a 2-armed bandit task in mice. In t