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NATURE NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 10, Issue 12, Pages 1625-1633Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nn2007
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- NIMH NIH HHS [F32-MH75544, F32 MH075544] Funding Source: Medline
- NINDS NIH HHS [R01-NS054775, R01 NS054775-02, R01 NS054775] Funding Source: Medline
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Neuroimaging studies of decision-making have generally related neural activity to objective measures (such as reward magnitude, probability or delay), despite choice preferences being subjective. However, economic theories posit that decision-makers behave as though different options have different subjective values. Here we use functional magnetic resonance imaging to show that neural activity in several brain regions-particularly the ventral striatum, medial prefrontal cortex and posterior cingulate cortex-tracks the revealed subjective value of delayed monetary rewards. This similarity provides unambiguous evidence that the subjective value of potential rewards is explicitly represented in the human brain.
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