ReviewNeuron2018
Economic Choice as an Untangling of Options into Actions.
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62 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Population geometries in frontal cortex coordinate value-based decisions.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Dynamics of oscillatory power support the integration of perceptual and mnemonic information within the premotor cortex.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Rethinking the centrality of brain areas in understanding functional organization.Nature neuroscience · 2026Review
- Involvement of a stress-responsive orbito-striatal projection in impulsive action in male rats.The international journal of neuropsychopharmacology · 2025Article
- Parietal cortex is recruited by frontal and cingulate areas to support action monitoring and updating during stopping.NeuroImage · 2025Article
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- A computational mechanism of cue-stimulus integration for pain in the brain.Science advances · 2024Article
- Irrational choices via a curvilinear representational geometry for value.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Gaze-centered gating, reactivation, and reevaluation of economic value in orbitofrontal cortex.Nature communications · 2024Article
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- Dual-tasking modulates movement speed but not value-based choices during walking.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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- Neural and computational underpinnings of biased confidence in human reinforcement learning.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Hierarchical action encoding in prefrontal cortex of freely moving macaques.Cell reports · 2023Article
- Semi-orthogonal subspaces for value mediate a tradeoff between binding and generalization.ArXiv · 2023Article
- Widespread coding of navigational variables in prefrontal cortex.Current biology : CB · 2023Article
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Abstract
We propose that economic choice can be understood as a gradual transformation from a domain of options to one of the actions. We draw an analogy with the idea of untangling information in the form vision system and propose that form vision and economic choice may be two aspects of a larger process that sculpts actions based on sensory inputs. From this viewpoint, choice results from the accumulated effect of repetitions of simple computations. These may consist primarily of relative valuations (evaluations relative to the value of rejection, perhaps in a manner akin to divisive normalization) applied to individual offers. With regard to economic choice, cortical brain regions differ primarily in their position and in what information they prioritize, and do not-with a few exceptions-have categorically distinct roles. Each region's specific contribution is determined largely by its inputs; thus, understanding connectivity is crucial for understanding choice. This view suggests that there is no single site of choice, that there is no meaningful distinction between pre- and post-decisionality, and that there is no explicit representation of value in the brain.
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