ReviewNeuroscience and biobehavioral reviews2014
The problem with value.
Review in Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 69 papers.
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69 citing papers in PubMed.
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- The reward positivity is insensitive to reinforcer devaluation.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
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- Representation of Anticipated Rewards and Punishments in the Human Brain.Annual review of psychology · 2025Review
- Modality-specific and modality-general representations of subjective value in frontal cortex.Communications biology · 2024Article
- Neurobiological foundations and clinical relevance of effort-based decision-making.Brain imaging and behavior · 2024Review
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- A mesocorticolimbic signature of pleasure in the human brain.Nature human behaviour · 2023Article
- Neurons in human pre-supplementary motor area encode key computations for value-based choice.Nature human behaviour · 2023Article
- Neural mechanisms underlying the hierarchical construction of perceived aesthetic value.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Training diversity promotes absolute-value-guided choice.PLoS computational biology · 2022Article
- Dynamic computation of value signals via a common neural network in multi-attribute decision-making.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2022Article
- Decision neuroscience and neuroeconomics: Recent progress and ongoing challenges.Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Cognitive science · 2022Review
- Economic Choices under Simultaneous or Sequential Offers Rely on the Same Neural Circuit.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2022Article
- Consciousness matters: phenomenal experience has functional value.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2022Review
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Abstract
Neural correlates of value have been extensively reported in a diverse set of brain regions. However, in many cases it is difficult to determine whether a particular neural response pattern corresponds to a value-signal per se as opposed to an array of alternative non-value related processes, such as outcome-identity coding, informational coding, encoding of autonomic and skeletomotor consequences, alongside previously described "salience" or "attentional" effects. Here, I review a number of experimental manipulations that can be used to test for value, and I identify the challenges in ascertaining whether a particular neural response is or is not a value signal. Finally, I emphasize that some non-value related signals may be especially informative as a means of providing insight into the nature of the decision-making related computations that are being implemented in a particular brain region.
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