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ArticleCurrent opinion in behavioral sciences2021

A Push For Examining Subjective Experience in Value-Based Decision-Making.

Drew C Schreiner, Ege A Yalcinbas, Christina M Gremel

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Article in Current opinion in behavioral sciences, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. How childhood adversity affects components of decision making.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Drew C SchreinerThe Department of Psychology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
Ege A YalcinbasThe Neurosciences Graduate Program, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
Christina M GremelThe Department of Psychology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.

Funding

Neurosciences Graduate Training ProgramT32NS061847 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI Brenda L Bloodgood · 2008 to 2026
$7.7M
Dependence induced dysfunction of decision-making circuits.R01AA026077 · NIAAA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI Christina M. Gremel · 2017 to 2026
$3.8M
The Functional Role of Mediodorsal Thalamic Input onto the Mouse Lateral Orbitofrontal Cortex in Incentive LearningF31MH118933 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI YALCINBAS, EGE AYSE · 2019 to 2021
$103k
Alcohol dependence induced aberrant persistence of reward-seeking and its corticostriatal determinants.F31AA027439 · NIAAA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI SCHREINER, DREW CLINTON · 2019 to 2020
$75k
NIAAA NIH HHS F31 AA027439NIAAA NIH HHS R01 AA026077NIMH NIH HHS F31 MH118933NINDS NIH HHS T32 NS061847
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Subjective experience is a powerful contributor to value-based decision-making. Not every decision is the same, nor made in isolation. Rather, decision-making relies on historical information and internal states for adaptive control. Hence, it is inherently continuous with respect to time - one decision or action evolves into the next. However, forays into the neurobiological underpinnings of decision-making have too frequently ignored the contribution of such continuous subjective experience, instead tying circuit activity and brain area involvement to discrete averaged behaviors and task parameters. While much information has been gained through these investigations, recent works have demonstrated the potential for a greater understanding of neural mechanisms when the continuous, experiential nature of behavior is integrated into the investigation. Such integration has important implications for disease states with disordered decision-making such as addiction, where subjective experience is a large contributor to the disorder.

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continuousDecision-makingneural mechanismssubjective experience

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PMID34056054
PMCPMC8153361

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