Journal
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 28, Issue 22, Pages 5623-5630Publisher
SOC NEUROSCIENCE
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1309-08.2008
Keywords
decision making; neuroeconomics; fMRI; goal values; decision values; prediction errors
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- Medical Research Council [G0001354, G0001354B] Funding Source: researchfish
- Medical Research Council [G0001354] Funding Source: Medline
- Wellcome Trust [095495] Funding Source: Medline
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To make sound economic decisions, the brain needs to compute several different value-related signals. These include goal values that measure the predicted reward that results from the outcome generated by each of the actions under consideration, decision values that measure the net value of taking the different actions, and prediction errors that measure deviations from individuals' previous reward expectations. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging and a novel decision-making paradigm to dissociate the neural basis of these three computations. Our results show that they are supported by different neural substrates: goal values are correlated with activity in the medial orbitofrontal cortex, decision values are correlated with activity in the central orbitofrontal cortex, and prediction errors are correlated with activity in the ventral striatum.
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