Topic: deliberation state

When navigating a familiar environment, your behavior may vary depending on your goals. For example, you might take a detour to check out a restaurant you have been curious about, but if you're in a rush, you will opt for the shortest route. Our research focuses on how the brain's neural population, particularly in regions associated with goal-directed behavior (the orbitofrontal cortex, OFC) and navigation (the retrosplenial cortex, RSC), orchestrates the transition between competing goals during navigation. To explore this, we designed a virtual-reality maze task for two Rhesus monkeys, wher