ReviewNature reviews. Neuroscience2018
Specializations for reward-guided decision-making in the primate ventral prefrontal cortex.
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- Preferences for fat, sugar, and oral-sensory food qualities in monkeys and humans.Physiology & behavior · 2025Review
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- Beta and theta oscillations track effort and previous reward in the human basal ganglia and prefrontal cortex during decision making.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Comparative basolateral amygdala connectomics reveals dissociable single-neuron projection patterns to frontal cortex in macaques and mice.Current biology : CB · 2024Article
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Abstract
The estimated values of choices, and therefore decision-making based on those values, are influenced by both the chance that the chosen items or goods can be obtained (availability) and their current worth (desirability) as well as by the ability to link the estimated values to choices (a process sometimes called credit assignment). In primates, the prefrontal cortex (PFC) has been thought to contribute to each of these processes; however, causal relationships between particular subdivisions of the PFC and specific functions have been difficult to establish. Recent lesion-based research studies have defined the roles of two different parts of the primate PFC - the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) and the ventral lateral frontal cortex (VLFC) - and their subdivisions in evaluating each of these factors and in mediating credit assignment during reward-based decision-making.
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