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SUBMITTER: Rudebeck PH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5600902 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Rudebeck Peter H PH Saunders Richard C RC Lundgren Dawn A DA Murray Elisabeth A EA
Neuron 20170801 5
Advantageous foraging choices benefit from an estimation of two aspects of a resource's value: its current desirability and availability. Both orbitofrontal and ventrolateral prefrontal areas contribute to updating these valuations, but their precise roles remain unclear. To explore their specializations, we trained macaque monkeys on two tasks: one required updating representations of a predicted outcome's desirability, as adjusted by selective satiation, and the other required updating represe ...[more]