Reward salience but not spatial attention dominates the value representation in the orbitofrontal cortex

The orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) encodes value, but how attention modulates its encoding is not clear. Here, the authors demonstrate that the representation of value in OFC is dominated by reward salience but only weakly modulated by spatial attention.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Wenyi Zhang, Yang Xie, Tianming Yang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-10-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34084-0