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SUBMITTER: Wunderlich K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3378641 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wunderlich Klaus K Dayan Peter P Dolan Raymond J RJ
Nature neuroscience 20120311 5
Investigations of the underlying mechanisms of choice in humans have focused on learning from prediction errors, leaving the computational structure of value based planning comparatively underexplored. Using behavioral and neuroimaging analyses of a minimax decision task, we found that the computational processes underlying forward planning are expressed in the anterior caudate nucleus as values of individual branching steps in a decision tree. In contrast, values represented in the putamen pert ...[more]