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Published: 12 May 2026

M. Ganesh Kumar ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0001-5559-6428 3 , 4 , 5 ,

Andres Nieto-Posadas 1 ,

Coralie-Anne Mosser 1 ,

Thomas Gisiger 1 ,

Émmanuel Wilson 1 ,

Cengiz Pehlevan ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0001-9767-6063 3 , 4 , 5 ,

Sylvain Williams ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-2511-0631 1 , 2 &

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Mark P. Brandon ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0003-2113-3489 1 , 2

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Correction to: Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09958-0 Published online 14 January 2026

In the version of the article initially published, in Fig. 4b, the colour bar labels “Last” and “First” were switched and have now been corrected so that “Last” is at the pink end and “First” is the blue end. In the third paragraph of the “Pre-reward encoding increases with learning” section, both callouts to Fig. 5 should have been to Fig. 3 and have now been corrected.…