Value signals in the prefrontal cortex predict individual preferences across reward categories

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 22, 2014, Pages 7580-7586

  Gross, Jörg ^a,b   Woelbert, Eva ^a,b   Zimmermann, Jan ^a   Okamoto Barth, Sanae ^a,b   Riedl, Arno ^b,c,d   Goebel, Rainer ^a,e  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d IZA   (Germany)

^e NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Choice prediction; Common scale; Decision making; Subjective value; Utility

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHOICE PREDICTION; DECISION MAKING; FAST FOOD; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGINATION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PLACE PREFERENCE; PLEASURE; PREDICTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD;

CHOICE PREDICTION; COMMON SCALE; DECISION MAKING; SUBJECTIVE VALUE; UTILITY;

ADULT; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; INDIVIDUALITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REWARD;

EID: 84901442301     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5082-13.2014     Document Type: Article

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