Nature Communications (Jul 2020)

Value and choice as separable and stable representations in orbitofrontal cortex

  • Daniel L. Kimmel,
  • Gamaleldin F. Elsayed,
  • John P. Cunningham,
  • William T. Newsome

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17058-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 19

Abstract

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In value-based decision-making, single prefrontal neurons represent multiple variables at different times in the decision process. Here, the authors show these representations to be separable and stable at the population level, allowing read out of specific variables at behaviorally relevant times.