Nature Communications (Jun 2018)

Dissociable neural mechanisms track evidence accumulation for selection of attention versus action

  • Amitai Shenhav,
  • Mark A. Straccia,
  • Sebastian Musslick,
  • Jonathan D. Cohen,
  • Matthew M. Botvinick

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04841-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Decision-making involves parallel information processing regarding what stimulus dimension to pay attention to and what action to take. Here, the authors show that vmPFC tracks the value of the attended attribute while dACC tracks the degree to which it is attended.