Nature Communications (Aug 2022)

Individuals with ventromedial frontal damage display unstable but transitive preferences during decision making

  • Linda Q. Yu,
  • Jason Dana,
  • Joseph W. Kable

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32511-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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The ventromedial frontal lobes (VMR) contribute to encoding of value. Here the authors show that individuals with VMF damage have less stable, but fundamentally transitive preferences, suggesting that valuation does not solely rely on the VMF.