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SUBMITTER: Fouragnan EF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7116825 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Fouragnan Elsa F EF Chau Bolton K H BKH Folloni Davide D Kolling Nils N Verhagen Lennart L Klein-Flügge Miriam M Tankelevitch Lev L Papageorgiou Georgios K GK Aubry Jean-Francois JF Sallet Jerome J Rushworth Matthew F S MFS
Nature neuroscience 20190415 5
The neural mechanisms mediating sensory-guided decision-making have received considerable attention, but animals often pursue behaviors for which there is currently no sensory evidence. Such behaviors are guided by internal representations of choice values that have to be maintained even when these choices are unavailable. We investigated how four macaque monkeys maintained representations of the value of counterfactual choices-choices that could not be taken at the current moment but which coul ...[more]