Nature Communications (Oct 2022)

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

  • Wenyi Zhang,
  • Yang Xie,
  • Tianming Yang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34084-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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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.