Nature Communications (Oct 2017)

Optimal coding and neuronal adaptation in economic decisions

  • Aldo Rustichini,
  • Katherine E. Conen,
  • Xinying Cai,
  • Camillo Padoa-Schioppa

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01373-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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During economic decisions, offer value cells in orbitofrontal cortex encode the values of offered goods and undergo range adaptation. Here the authors present a theory of optimal coding based on payoff maximization. For linear tuning functions, range adaptation in offer value cells ensures maximal expected payoff.