Topic: self-initiated decision-making

The brain has a remarkable ability to maintain a flexible behavioral repertoire which must continuously expand to accommodate new knowledge, a form of ‘continual learning’. Unlike mainstream artificial networks, which require complex and computationally expensive systems to achieve similar versatility, biological brains efficiently generalize prior learning, making inferences to acquire new tasks and perform multiple tasks based on context. Despite being an ideal species for neural investigation, mice have typically been thought to exhibit limited cognitive capacity for such complex learning p