Reactivation of associative structure specific outcome responses during prospective evaluation in reward-based choices

How the brain evaluates options to make a reward-based choice is unclear. Here, authors show that, prior to choice, neural activity patterns to the potential outcomes are reactivated in macaque orbitofrontal cortex, in a way that reflects the unique event sequences leading up to the outcomes.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Maya Zhe Wang, Benjamin Y. Hayden
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2017-06-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15821