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SUBMITTER: Saez RA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5710843 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Neuron 20170701 1
The same reward can possess different motivational meaning depending upon its magnitude relative to other rewards. To study the neurophysiological mechanisms mediating assignment of motivational meaning, we recorded the activity of neurons in the amygdala and orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) of monkeys during a Pavlovian task in which the relative amount of liquid reward associated with one conditioned stimulus (CS) was manipulated by changing the reward amount associated with a second CS. Anticipator ...[more]