ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2019
Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex Tracks Multiple Environmental Variables during Search.
Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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- Neuronal Activity in Orbitofrontal Cortex during Trinary Choices under Risk.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Irrational choices via a curvilinear representational geometry for value.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Shifts in attention drive context-dependent subspace encoding in anterior cingulate cortex in mice during decision making.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Shifts in attention drive context-dependent subspace encoding in anterior cingulate cortex during decision making.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
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- Prefrontal cortex interactions with the amygdala in primates.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2022Review
- From exploration to exploitation: a shifting mental mode in late life development.Trends in cognitive sciences · 2021Review
- Choice-relevant information transformation along a ventrodorsal axis in the medial prefrontal cortex.Nature communications · 2021Article
- Multicentric tracking of multiple agents by anterior cingulate cortex during pursuit and evasion.Nature communications · 2021Article
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To make efficient foraging decisions, we must combine information about the values of available options with nonvalue information. Some accounts of ventromedial PFC (vmPFC) suggest that it has a narrow role limited to evaluating immediately available options. We examined responses of neurons in area 14 (a putative macaque homolog of human vmPFC) as 2 male macaques performed a novel foraging search task. Although many neurons encoded the values of immediately available offers, they also independently encoded several other variables that influence choice, but that are conceptually distinct from offer value. These variables include average reward rate, number of offers viewed per trial, previous offer values, previous outcome sizes, and the locations of the currently attended offer. We conclude that, rather than serving as specialized economic value center, vmPFC plays a broad role in integrating relevant environmental information to drive foraging decisions.
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