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SUBMITTER: Grabenhorst F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6506276 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Grabenhorst Fabian F Báez-Mendoza Raymundo R Genest Wilfried W Deco Gustavo G Schultz Wolfram W
Cell 20190411 4
By observing their social partners, primates learn about reward values of objects. Here, we show that monkeys' amygdala neurons derive object values from observation and use these values to simulate a partner monkey's decision process. While monkeys alternated making reward-based choices, amygdala neurons encoded object-specific values learned from observation. Dynamic activities converted these values to representations of the recorded monkey's own choices. Surprisingly, the same activity patte ...[more]