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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2021

Reward-specific satiety affects subjective value signals in orbitofrontal cortex during multicomponent economic choice.

Alexandre Pastor-Bernier, Arkadiusz Stasiak, Wolfram Schultz

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
2.5field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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13 citing papers in PubMed, 30 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Neuronal Activity in Orbitofrontal Cortex during Trinary Choices under Risk.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026
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  2. Is the Whole the Sum of its Parts? Neural Computation of Consumer Bundle Valuation in Humans.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026
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  8. Worth the Work? Monkeys Discount Rewards by a Subjective Adapting Effort Cost.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Alexandre Pastor-BernierDepartment of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3DY, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-8865-6551
Arkadiusz StasiakDepartment of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3DY, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-7953-4739
Wolfram SchultzDepartment of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3DY, United Kingdom wolfram.schultz@protonmail.com.ORCID 0000-0002-8530-4518
University of Cambridge · GB

Funding

The Neurobiology of Social Decision-Making: Social Inference and ContextP50MH094258 · NIMH · CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI O'DOHERTY, JOHN P · 2012 to 2021
$18.6M
NIMH NIH HHS P50 MH094258Wellcome Trust 095495Wellcome Trust 204811/Z/16/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sensitivity to satiety constitutes a basic requirement for neuronal coding of subjective reward value. Satiety from natural ongoing consumption affects reward functions in learning and approach behavior. More specifically, satiety reduces the subjective economic value of individual rewards during choice between options that typically contain multiple reward components. The unconfounded assessment of economic reward value requires tests at choice indifference between two options, which is difficult to achieve with sated rewards. By conceptualizing choices between options with multiple reward components ("bundles"), Revealed Preference Theory may offer a solution. Despite satiety, choices against an unaltered reference bundle may remain indifferent when the reduced value of a sated bundle reward is compensated by larger amounts of an unsated reward of the same bundle, and then the value loss of the sated reward is indicated by the amount of the added unsated reward. Here, we show psychophysically titrated choice indifference in monkeys between bundles of differently sated rewards. Neuronal chosen value signals in the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) followed closely the subjective value change within recording periods of individual neurons. A neuronal classifier distinguishing the bundles and predicting choice substantiated the subjective value change. The choice between conventional single rewards confirmed the neuronal changes seen with two-reward bundles. Thus, reward-specific satiety reduces subjective reward value signals in OFC. With satiety being an important factor of subjective reward value, these results extend the notion of subjective economic reward value coding in OFC neurons.

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Adaptation, PhysiologicalChoice BehaviorNeural PathwaysRewardAnimalsLearningMacaca mulattaMaleNeuronsPrefrontal CortexSatiety Responsebundlechoice indifferencemulticomponent choicerevealed preferencestochastic choice

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PMID34285071
PMCPMC8325167
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