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SUBMITTER: Blanchard TC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4320007 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Blanchard Tommy C TC Hayden Benjamin Y BY Bromberg-Martin Ethan S ES
Neuron 20150122 3
Decision makers are curious and consequently value advance information about future events. We made use of this fact to test competing theories of value representation in area 13 of orbitofrontal cortex (OFC). In a new task, we found that monkeys reliably sacrificed primary reward (water) to view advance information about gamble outcomes. While monkeys integrated information value with primary reward value to make their decisions, OFC neurons had no systematic tendency to integrate these variabl ...[more]