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SUBMITTER: Ramayya AG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4550220 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ramayya Ashwin G AG Pedisich Isaac I Kahana Michael J MJ
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The brain's sensitivity to unexpected gains or losses plays an important role in our ability to learn new behaviors (Rescorla and Wagner, 1972; Sutton and Barto, 1990). Recent work suggests that gains and losses are ubiquitously encoded throughout the human brain (Vickery et al., 2011), however, the extent to which reward expectation modulates these valence representations is not known. To address this question, we analyzed recordings from 4306 intracranially implanted electrodes in 39 neurosurg ...[more]