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The ventral hippocampus CA3 is critical in regulating timing uncertainty in temporal decision-making

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Çavdaroğlu, Bilgehan
Riaz, Sadia
Shi, Yuqing
Ito, Rutsuko

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Timing uncertainty is a critical component of temporal decision-making, as it determines the decision strategies that maximize reward rate. However, little is known about the biological substrates of timing uncertainty. In this study, we report that the CA3 subregion of the ventral hippocampus (vCA3), a relatively unexplored area in timing, is critical in regulating timing uncertainty that informs temporal decision making. Using a variant of the differential reinforcement of low rates of responding (DRL) task that incorporates differential levels of approach-avoidance conflict, rats were trained to wait a minimum of 6 s to earn a reward that was paired with varying durations of foot shock. Post-training chemogenetic inhibition of the vCA3 reduced timing uncertainty without affecting mean wait times, irrespective of the level of conflict experienced. Simulations based on the information-processing variant of scalar expectancy theory (SET) revealed that the vCA3 may be important in modulating decision threshold or switch closure latency variability. © 2021 The Author(s)The neural substrate of timing uncertainty, an inherent component of optimal temporal decision making, is not well known. Using a temporal decision-making task combined with chemogenetics, Çavdaroğlu et al. demonstrate that pyramidal cells in the CA3 subregion of the ventral hippocampus are important in modulating timing uncertainty.

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Cell biology

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Cell Reports

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10.1016/j.celrep.2021.108694

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