A dynamic code for economic object valuation in prefrontal cortex neurons

Economic decisions are based on perceived reward value but it is unclear how individual neurons encode value estimates as input for decision mechanisms. Here authors show that dorsolateral prefrontal cortex uses a dynamic value code based on object-specific valuations by single neurons.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ken-Ichiro Tsutsui, Fabian Grabenhorst, Shunsuke Kobayashi, Wolfram Schultz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2016-09-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12554

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