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SUBMITTER: Wittmann MK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4974652 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20160801
In many natural environments the value of a choice gradually gets better or worse as circumstances change. Discerning such trends makes predicting future choice values possible. We show that humans track such trends by comparing estimates of recent and past reward rates, which they are able to hold simultaneously in the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC). Comparison of recent and past reward rates with positive and negative decision weights is reflected by opposing dACC signals indexing the ...[more]