Paduoa-Schioppa Article Flashcards
What is the paper topic?
Neurons in the orbitofrontal cortex encode economic value
What is the Orbitofrontal Cortex?
It encodes economic value which relates to decision-making
What is value-based decision-making?
Weighing the costs and benefits & incentive salience (‘wanting’)
What is the hypothesis?
The orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) is implicated in economic choice, and encodes the value of offered + chosen goods
What were some of the methods?
Choice task with monkeys
What were some of the results?
Categorizing of OFC (13) neurons into 3 categories: Chosen value (independent of the visuomotor contingencies of task/ specifics of the reward), offered value (assumes linear value functions), taste value (modulates the activity of neurons in sensory + motor regions, parietal neurons encode value for all possible courses of action)
