@article {Wood084970, author = {Jesse Wood and Nicholas W. Simon and Spencer Koerner and Robert E. Kass and Bita Moghaddam}, title = {Ventral tegmental area neurons use an ensemble code for representing information about ongoing actions}, elocation-id = {084970}, year = {2016}, doi = {10.1101/084970}, publisher = {Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory}, abstract = {We observed that ensembles of VTA neurons encode information about ongoing behavior in real-time. As rats executed varying numbers of actions to obtain the same reward, the firing rates of different neurons were preferentially tuned to low, medium, or high numbered bins of actions, allowing information about ongoing behavior to be decoded from the ensemble activity. This ensemble code could be used to organize and sustain behavioral responses.}, URL = {https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/11/02/084970}, eprint = {https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/11/02/084970.full.pdf}, journal = {bioRxiv} }