Nature Communications (Jun 2016)

Specific frontal neural dynamics contribute to decisions to check

  • Frederic M. Stoll,
  • Vincent Fontanier,
  • Emmanuel Procyk

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11990
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Information seeking is thought to rely on the brain's frontal cortex but which regions specifically control this drive remains unknown. Here the authors show that monkeys deciding to seek information on the current state of the environment showed specific neural dynamics in the lateral prefrontal cortex and midcingulate cortex.