Neural mechanisms underlying contextual dependency of subjective values: Converging evidence from monkeys and humans

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 2308-2320

  Abitbol, Raphaëlle ^a,b,c   Lebreton, Maël ^a,c   Hollard, Guillaume ^b   Richmond, Barry J ^d   Bouret, Sébastien ^a,c,d   Pessiglione, Mathias ^a,c  

^a PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 1 PANTHÉON SORBONNE   (France)

^c INSTITUT DU CERVEAU ET DE LA MOELLE ÉPINIÈRE   (France)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Electrophysiology; FMRI; Neuroeconomics; Reward; Ventromedial prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APPETITE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; COGNITION; DATA ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE UNIT ACTIVITY; SPIKE WAVE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN MAPPING; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CYTOLOGY; EMOTION; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; HEARING; MUSIC; NERVE CELL; PAINTING; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; REWARD; RHESUS MONKEY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VISION;

ADULT; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CUES; DECISION MAKING; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MUSIC; NEURONS; PAINTINGS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REWARD; SATIETY RESPONSE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84922354438     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1878-14.2015     Document Type: Article

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