Uta Wolfensteller

The paper examines how functional connectivity between thalamic nuclei and cortical/subcortical networks changes during learning in humans, identifying shifts associated with transitioning from controlled to habitual behavior.

This study uses fMRI to compare neural changes during instruction-based and trial-and-error learning, finding that S-R rule representations guide task performance regardless of learning mode.

The paper investigates how the brain represents new rules after first-time instruction, finding that the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (VLPFC) encodes rule-specific states immediately after instruction and stabilizes during early implementation.