ArticleCurrent opinion in behavioral sciences2015
Prioritising the relevant information for learning and decision making within orbital and ventromedial prefrontal cortex.
Article in Current opinion in behavioral sciences, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
17 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 34 citations in OpenAlex.
- The anticipation and outcome phases of reward and loss processing: A neuroimaging meta-analysis of the monetary incentive delay task.Human brain mapping · 2018Pooled it
- The 5-HTPsychopharmacology · 2018Trial
- Tai Chi exercise and neuroplasticity: a narrative review according to neural mechanisms and clinical utilizations in brain health.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2026Review
- Patterns of brain-wide associations reflect socioeconomics.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Medial prefrontal cortex circuit dynamics involved in stage-specific addiction.Brain structure & function · 2025Review
- Neural representations of noncentral events during narrative encoding predict subsequent story ending originality.Science advances · 2025Article
- Human ventromedial prefrontal cortex is necessary for prosocial motivation.Nature human behaviour · 2024Article
- Self-Prioritization Reconsidered: Scrutinizing Three Claims.Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2023Article
- Value network engagement and effects of memory-related processing during encoding and retrieval of value.Brain and cognition · 2021Article
- Defining an orbitofrontal compass: Functional and anatomical heterogeneity across anterior-posterior and medial-lateral axes.Behavioral neuroscience · 2021Review
- Role of BDNF in the development of an OFC-amygdala circuit regulating sociability in mouse and human.Molecular psychiatry · 2021Article
- Neural mechanisms of acute stress and trait anxiety in adolescents.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2021Article
- Functional connectivity between memory and reward centers across task and rest track memory sensitivity to reward.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2019Article
- Article
- Necessary Contributions of Human Frontal Lobe Subregions to Reward Learning in a Dynamic, Multidimensional Environment.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2016Article
- Dorsolateral-ventromedial prefrontal cortex interactions during value-guided choice: a function of context or difficulty?The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2015Article
- Meditation-induced neuroplastic changes of the prefrontal network are associated with reduced valence perception in older people.Brain and neuroscience advancesArticle
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
Abstract
Our environment and internal states are frequently complex, ambiguous and dynamic, meaning we need to have selection mechanisms to ensure we are basing our decisions on currently relevant information. Here, we review evidence that orbitofrontal (OFC) and ventromedial prefrontal cortex (VMPFC) play conserved, critical but distinct roles in this process. While OFC may use specific sensory associations to enhance task-relevant information, particularly in the context of learning, VMPFC plays a role in ensuring irrelevant information does not impinge on the decision in hand.
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.