Nature Communications (Dec 2017)

Distributed neural representation of saliency controlled value and category during anticipation of rewards and punishments

  • Zhihao Zhang,
  • Jennifer Fanning,
  • Daniel B. Ehrlich,
  • Wenting Chen,
  • Daeyeol Lee,
  • Ifat Levy

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02080-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Stimulus category, saliency and value all affect the subjective value estimates that guide our decisions. Here, the authors systematically vary their stimuli along these three dimensions in humans and report category independent encoding of values and saliency in the vmPFC and striatum.