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Mice seek information for curiosity\u2019s sake\u2014and their desire for knowledge versus a payout is represented distinctly in the brain, new findings suggest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":254113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[152],"tags":[722,166,1170,56,560],"class_list":["post-254111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-behavior","tag-cognitive-neuroscience","tag-frontal-lobe","tag-neural-circuits","tag-reward-system"],"acf":{"primary_tag":722,"doi_url":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.53053\/EAQD9986","citation_count":"0","custom_js_library":"","hero_type":"feat_image","hero_alt_image":null,"hero_youtube":"","hero_video":null,"hero_layout":"landscape","hero_caption":"Sniff test<\/b>: Mice given the choice between smelling odors that indicate whether a reward will soon follow versus odors that provide no clues usually opt for the informative ones.","hero_by":"Photograph by Richard Drury","hero_credit":"","hero_bg_color":"tan","authors":[250256],"other_authors":"","related_title":"Explore more from The Transmitter<\/em>","related_hide":false,"related_filter":"latest","related_tag":null,"related_category":null,"related_custom":{"articles":null},"related_custom_wwn":{"articles":null},"newsletter":"","banner_content":"","banner_url":"","apple_article_id":"5da4e96b-d265-4eb7-9c86-0aed72c6deed","apple_article_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","google_button_text":"","google_btn_bg_color":"","tooltip_text":"","sidebar_related_hide":false,"sidebar_related_title":"related articles","sidebar_related_hide_images":false,"sidebar_related_articles":"","comps":[{"acf_fc_layout":"copy_comp","copy":"\u201cAll men by nature desire to know\u201d is the first line of Aristotle\u2019s work \u201cMetaphysics.\u201d<\/span> New findings show that this statement extends across the animal kingdom to mice, too.<\/span>\r\n\r\nMice seek information even if it does not correlate with receiving a reward\u2014a positive payout such as food and water\u2014and they will, in fact, give up a reward in exchange for information, according to a <\/span>study<\/span><\/a> published in <\/span>Nature Neuroscience<\/span><\/i> this July. The orbitofrontal cortex represents the value of information differently from the value of a reward.<\/span>\r\n\r\nThe major contribution of this work \u201cis showing that mice also value information in the same way that we know that humans and other primates do,\u201d says <\/span>Joe Kable<\/span><\/a>, professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, who was not involved in the study. This \u201cmakes it possible to study this particular cognitive process of information seeking in an animal model that has many, many, many more tools than the tools that we have to investigate this in humans and other primates.\u201d<\/span>\r\n\r\n[tt_text class='']T[\/tt_text]he study builds on the behaviorist tradition stemming from <\/span>B.F. Skinner<\/span><\/a>\u2019s 1930s experiments on operant conditioning in <\/span>rats<\/span><\/a>, and later <\/span>pigeons<\/span><\/a>, showing that outcomes guide behaviors. A variety of animals, including <\/span>humans<\/span><\/a> and <\/span>nonhuman primates<\/span><\/a>, preferentially seek information devoid of reward value, according to carefully controlled experiments in which an animal can choose between getting cues that signal a reward to come, or not getting cues at all.<\/span>\r\n\r\nIn this new work, the researchers trained water-deprived mice to poke their noses into one of two ports that provide equal chances of a sip of water: At the \u201cinformation\u201d port, the animals smelled odors that always indicated whether or not they would get water; at the \u201cno information\u201d port, odors provided no clues.<\/span>\r\n\r\nAfter mice learned the task, the team let the animals choose between the two ports.<\/span>\r\n\r\nMice chose the information port 78 percent of the time. They also entered the information port faster than the no information one, by an average of 220 milliseconds. At the information port, they would wait to lick the spout until the cue was given, whereas at the no information port, they would start licking immediately. These observations suggest that the mice prefer information, because the probability of receiving water was identical at the two ports.<\/span>\r\n\r\nEven after the researchers decreased the amount of water dispensed at the information port, the mice still preferred it\u2014so long as it was only 4 to 6\u2009microliters short of the amount provided at the no information port.<\/span>\r\n\r\n\u201cIt\u2019s important to convince both yourself and the field that you\u2019re studying the behavior and the strategy and the cognitive process that you are intending to study, right?\u201d says study investigator <\/span>Jennifer Bussell<\/span><\/a>, a postdoctoral neuroscientist in the <\/span>Axel lab<\/span><\/a> at Columbia University. It took many iterations of the task for her to convince herself and colleagues that the mice really are seeking information without other confounding factors, she says. \u201cI hope we have convinced everyone at this point, at least about the behavior, because we struggled for such a long time to find a version of the task that we thought would work.\u201d<\/span>\r\n\r\n[tt_text class='']C[\/tt_text]alcium imaging of excitatory neurons in the orbitofrontal cortex shows overlap among the neurons that responded to information versus reward, but also distinct representations, indicating that separate pathways track the desire to know something versus the desire to have something.<\/span>\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_254117\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"1024\"]\"Lab Tube tangle<\/b>: A plethora of tubes contain the olfactory agents that guide mice through behavioral tests to prove that they seek information. Courtesy of Thomas Barlow \/ Zuckerman Institute[\/caption]\r\n\r\nBen Hayden<\/span><\/a>, professor of neurosurgery at the Baylor College of Medicine, says he is \u201cjazzed\u201d about this paper because he has been following these experiments for years, although he was not involved in the work. He has worked on a similar <\/span>study<\/span><\/a> looking at nonhuman primate information seeking and its representation in the orbitofrontal cortex, but says, \u201cYou can do much better neuroscience with a mouse than you can with a monkey\u201d for the purpose of studying the neural circuitry that underpins information seeking.<\/span>\r\n\r\nThe new study\u2019s initial representational mapping draws similar conclusions to previous work done in non-human primates, but next, Bussell would like to do \u201cactivity-dependent labeling and tracing, which is one of these things that is somewhat straightforward in a mouse and potentially not possible in other model systems.\u201d She would like to also look beyond the orbitofrontal cortex at \u201cplaces like medial prefrontal cortex and the insula.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nThis paper is \u201clandmark,\u201d says <\/span>Jacqueline Gottlieb<\/span><\/a>, professor of Neuroscience at Columbia University, who was not involved in the work, because it sets up a behavioral paradigm to study information seeking in mice, where \u201cthere are more manipulations that can be done. 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The Transmitter<\/em>\u2019s summer reading list includes an autopsy of the Human Brain Project, an overview of the neuroscience of motherhood and a memoir from a pioneer in Huntington\u2019s disease research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":254410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[149],"tags":[189,604,166,143,150,1068,605,207,126,573],"class_list":["post-254408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","tag-behavioral-neuroscience","tag-books","tag-cognitive-neuroscience","tag-computational-neuroscience","tag-consciousness","tag-neuroimaging","tag-reviews","tag-science-and-society","tag-sleep","tag-theoretical-neuroscience"],"acf":{"primary_tag":605,"doi_url":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.53053\/UWJI2014","citation_count":"0","custom_js_library":"","hero_type":"feat_image","hero_alt_image":null,"hero_youtube":"","hero_video":null,"hero_layout":"landscape","hero_caption":"Summer reading:<\/strong> The Transmitter<\/em>\u2019s book list features titles by prominent neuroscientists such as Romain Brette, Susana Carmona, Mark Humphries and David Sussillo.","hero_by":"","hero_credit":"","hero_bg_color":"tan","authors":[206346],"other_authors":"","related_title":"Explore more from The Transmitter<\/em>","related_hide":false,"related_filter":"custom","related_tag":null,"related_category":null,"related_custom":{"articles":[{"article":247944},{"article":247224},{"article":247066}]},"related_custom_wwn":{"articles":null},"newsletter":"","banner_content":"","banner_url":"","apple_article_id":"3908cb74-10ae-4e83-a006-b0223050bbc6","apple_article_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ==","google_button_text":"","google_btn_bg_color":"","tooltip_text":"","sidebar_related_hide":false,"sidebar_related_title":"related articles","sidebar_related_hide_images":false,"sidebar_related_articles":"","comps":[{"acf_fc_layout":"section_title_comp","section_title":"Upcoming titles:"},{"acf_fc_layout":"copy_comp","copy":"[tt_sidebar_image image_id='254412' credit='' author='' author_link=''][\/tt_sidebar_image]<\/span><\/a>\"A Mother\u2019s Brain: The New Science of the Neuro-Maternal Revolution\"<\/a> by Susana Carmona (MIT Press)<\/span>\r\n\r\nIn a 2024 <\/span>Nature Neuroscience <\/span><\/i>paper, <\/span>Susana Carmona<\/span><\/a>\u00a0analyzed brain imaging data from more than 100 pregnant women in Spain, making it one of the <\/span>most detailed studies<\/span><\/a> of what happens in the human brain during gestation. In her new book \u201cA Mother\u2019s Brain,\u201d she provides a comprehensive, research-based view of the dynamic brain transformation that occurs during those nine months while sharing her own experiences of motherhood. 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The second half lays out a theoretical framework to guide future research into how these patterns generate the hallmark properties of the human mind. <\/span>\r\n\r\nPublication date: 3 November 2026<\/span><\/i>\r\n\r\n "},{"acf_fc_layout":"copy_comp","copy":"[tt_sidebar_image image_id='254436' credit='' author='' author_link=''][\/tt_sidebar_image]\"The Phantom Mind: Insights from the Borderlands of Sleep\"<\/span><\/a> by Baland Jalal (MIT Press)<\/span>\r\n\r\nSleep paralysis\u2014a peculiar glitch that results in a hybrid, unstable state of consciousness\u2014is caused by disrupted neuronal mechanisms that flip the brain from wakefulness to sleep. In \u201cThe Phantom Mind,\u201d <\/span>Baland Jalal<\/span><\/a> explores the neuroscience behind sleep paralysis and other states of fractured sleep, as well as their broad cultural impact. 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Mahfoud uses interviews with HBP scientists and administrators, as well as observations from their meetings with the European Commission, to explore how competing visions over brain models turned into debates over scientific governance, offering a critique of big team science in the process.<\/span> <\/i>\r\n\r\nPublication date: 24 November 2026<\/span><\/i>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"copy_comp","copy":"[tt_sidebar_image image_id='254435' credit='' author='' author_link=''][\/tt_sidebar_image]\"The Latent Brain: The New Science of How We Think, Feel, and Act\"<\/span><\/a> by Mark Humphries (Harvard University Press)<\/span>\r\n\r\nIn his latest book, <\/span>Mark Humphries<\/span><\/a> makes a call for a theoretical shift in neuroscience, arguing that a focus on individual neuronal activity is no longer sufficient to comprehend the brain. 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