Nature Communications (Jan 2019)

Neuronal evidence for good-based economic decisions under variable action costs

  • Xinying Cai,
  • Camillo Padoa-Schioppa

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-08209-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Choices between goods often depend on the action costs, but the mechanisms underlying economic decisions under variable action cost are poorly understood. Here, the authors record from neurons in the monkey orbitofrontal cortex and show that decisions under variable action cost were made in a non-spatial representation.