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SCIENCE
Volume 324, Issue 5929, Pages 948-950Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1168488
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- National Institute on Drug Abuse postdoctoral fellowship [023338]
- National Eye Institute [013496]
- Duke Institute for Brain Studies
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The neural mechanisms supporting the ability to recognize and respond to fictive outcomes, outcomes of actions that one has not taken, remain obscure. We hypothesized that neurons in the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), which monitors the consequences of actions and mediates subsequent changes in behavior, would respond to fictive reward information. We recorded responses of single neurons during performance of a choice task that provided information about the reward values of options that were not chosen. We found that ACC neurons signal fictive reward information and use a coding scheme similar to that used to signal experienced outcomes. Thus, individual ACC neurons process both experienced and fictive rewards.
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