Rewards are crucial objects that induce learning, approach behavior, choices, and
emotions. Whereas emotions are difficult to investigate in animals, the learning function is …

Visual search, a vital task for humans and animals, has also become a common and
important tool for studying many topics central to active vision and cognition ranging from …

During decision-making, neurons in the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) sequentially represent the
value of each option in turn, but it is unclear how these dynamics are translated into a choice …

Economic choice is the behaviour observed when individuals select one among many
available options. There is no intrinsically 'correct'answer: economic choice depends on …

Traditionally the object of economic theory and experimental psychology, economic choice
recently became a lively research focus in systems neuroscience. Here I summarize the …

We show that while a primate chooses between two reaching actions, its motor system first
represents both options and later reflects selection between them. When two potential …

Damage to prefrontal cortex (PFC) impairs decision-making, but the underlying value
computations that might cause such impairments remain unclear. Here we report that value …

Damage to orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) produces an unusual pattern of deficits. Patients have
intact cognitive abilities but are impaired in making everyday decisions. Here we review …

Mirror neurons are a specific type of visuomotor neuron that discharge both when a monkey
executes a motor act and when it observes a similar motor act performed by another …

Decision making has recently emerged as a central theme in neurophysiological studies of
cognition, and experimental and computational work has led to the proposal of a cortical …