Contextual inference through flexible integration of environmental features and behavioural outcomes
Fig 7
Removing support from outcome inference during learning mimics experimentally observed splitter cell loss.
(A) Simulated cell firing of a cell representing future predicted occupancy of location 4 (indicated with an arrow) along the overlapping central arm on correct random trials across all agents for cue-choice distance 20, (B) Quantification of simulated cell firing along the central arm in its preferred and non-preferred contexts, (C) Evolution of the difference in splitter probabilities along the central arm, (D) Schematic showing how simulated firing rates are calculated using the successor representation map associated with each context weighted by its posterior probability on its preferred and non-preferred trial types to calculate the future predicted occupancy of a specific location within all other locations of the environment, (E) Impact of increasing cue-choice distance on the difference in splitter probabilities in the location following the cue (left) and correlation between performance on random trials and the difference in splitter probabilities in the location following the cue (right). (F) Same as (E) but for distractor features. * indicates p < 0.05, statistical results are detailed in S1 Table.