ArticleeLife2021
Neuronal activity in dorsal anterior cingulate cortex during economic choices under variable action costs.
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- Anterior cingulate cortex monitors action state and action content in complex associative learning.eLife · 2026Article
- Accumulation of virtual tokens towards a jackpot reward enhances performance and value encoding in dorsal anterior cingulate cortex.Nature communications · 2026Article
- A Common Stay-on-Goal Mechanism in the Anterior Cingulate Cortex for Information and Effort Choices.eNeuro · 2025Article
- Generalized Encoding of the Relative Subjective Value of Cognitive Effort in the Dorsal ACC.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Article
- Value dynamics affect choice preparation during decision-making.Nature neuroscience · 2023Article
- Abstraction of Reward Context Facilitates Relative Reward Coding in Neural Populations of the Macaque Anterior Cingulate Cortex.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023Article
- Neural signals implicated in the processing of appetitive and aversive events in social and non-social contexts.Frontiers in systems neuroscience · 2022Review
- Where Actions Meet Outcomes: Medial Prefrontal Cortex, Central Thalamus, and the Basal Ganglia.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2022Review
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Abstract
The role of the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (ACCd) in decision making has often been discussed but remains somewhat unclear. On the one hand, numerous studies implicated this area in decisions driven by effort or action cost. On the other hand, work on economic choices between goods (under fixed action costs) found that neurons in ACCd encoded only post-decision variables. To advance our understanding of the role played by this area in decision making, we trained monkeys to choose between different goods (juice types) offered in variable amounts and with different action costs. Importantly, the task design dissociated computation of the action cost from planning of any particular action. Neurons in ACCd encoded the chosen value and the binary choice outcome in several reference frames (chosen juice, chosen cost, chosen action). Thus, this area provided a rich representation of post-decision variables. In contrast to the OFC, neurons in ACCd did not represent pre-decision variables such as individual offer values in any reference frame. Hence, ongoing decisions are unlikely guided by ACCd. Conversely, neuronal activity in this area might inform subsequent actions.
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