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SUBMITTER: Mormann F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7304387 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mormann F F Bausch M M Knieling S S Fried I I
Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) 20190101 1
The amygdala plays an important role in the computation of internal reward signals. In animals it has been shown to enable a stimulus to indicate the current value of a reinforcer. However, the exact nature of the current value representations in humans remains unknown. Specifically, do neurons of the human amygdala represent current value signals only in tasks requiring valuation? We recorded from 406 neurons in the amygdala, orbitofrontal cortex, parahippocampal cortex, entorhinal cortex, and ...[more]