The role of the hippocampus in approach-avoidance conflict decision-making: Evidence from rodent and human studies

•The hippocampus is viewed primarily as a memory and spatial cognition structure.•There is increasing interest in its involvement in approach-avoidance conflict.•Accumulation of rodent data suggests the ventral hippocampus plays a key role.•Recent human work provides convergent cross-species evidenc...

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