A major shift is happening within neurophysiology: a population doctrine is drawing level
with the single-neuron doctrine that has long dominated the field. Population-level ideas …

Adaptive reward-related decision making requires accurate prospective consideration of the
specific outcome of each option and its current desirability. These mental simulations are …

Efficient foraging is essential to survival and depends on frontal cortex in mammals.
Because of its role in psychiatric disorders, frontal cortex and its contributions to reward …

Adaptive reward-related decision making often requires accurate and detailed
representation of potential available rewards. Environmental reward-predictive stimuli can …

Frontal and parietal cortex are implicated in economic decision-making, but their causal
roles are untested. Here we silenced the frontal orienting field (FOF) and posterior parietal …

Studies of neural dynamics in lateral orbitofrontal cortex (lOFC) have shown that subsets of
neurons that encode distinct aspects of behavior, such as value, may project to common …

Theories of orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) function have evolved substantially over the last few
decades. There is now a general consensus that the OFC is important for predicting aspects …

Humans and animals make predictions about the rewards they expect to receive in different
situations. In formal models of behavior, these predictions are known as value …

One dominant hypothesis about the function of the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) is that the OFC
signals the subjective values of possible outcomes to other brain areas for learning and …

The orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) is proposed to be critical to economic decision making. Yet
one can inactivate OFC without affecting well-practiced choices. One possible explanation of …