Nature Communications (Dec 2017)

Simultaneous representation of a spectrum of dynamically changing value estimates during decision making

  • David Meder,
  • Nils Kolling,
  • Lennart Verhagen,
  • Marco K. Wittmann,
  • Jacqueline Scholl,
  • Kristoffer H. Madsen,
  • Oliver J. Hulme,
  • Timothy E.J. Behrens,
  • Matthew F.S. Rushworth

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02169-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Activity in dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) dynamically tracks the value of the choice after every outcome. Here the authors report that dACC represents topographic maps of value estimates for different learning rates and interacts with similar maps in other areas at the time of the decision.