Nature Communications (Jun 2017)

Reactivation of associative structure specific outcome responses during prospective evaluation in reward-based choices

  • Maya Zhe Wang,
  • Benjamin Y. Hayden

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15821
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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How the brain evaluates options to make a reward-based choice is unclear. Here, authors show that, prior to choice, neural activity patterns to the potential outcomes are reactivated in macaque orbitofrontal cortex, in a way that reflects the unique event sequences leading up to the outcomes.