The orbitofrontal cortex represents the reward or affective value of primary reinforcers
including taste, touch, texture, and face expression. It learns to associate other stimuli with …

Rapid advances have recently been made in understanding how value-based decision-
making processes are implemented in the brain. We integrate neuroeconomic and …

The human orbitofrontal cortex, ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC), and anterior
cingulate cortex are involved in reward processing and thereby in emotion but are also …

Understanding how the brain computes value is a basic question in neuroscience. Although
individual studies have driven this progress, meta-analyses provide an opportunity to test …

Reward-guided decision-making depends on a network of brain regions. Among these are
the orbitofrontal and the anterior cingulate cortex. However, it is difficult to ascertain if these …

The concept of a (single) limbic system is shown to be outmoded. Instead, anatomical,
neurophysiological, functional neuroimaging, and neuropsychological evidence is …

THE AIM OF THE REVIEW: A large number of studies suggest a close relationship between
olfactory and affective information processing. Odors can modulate mood, cognition, and …

Complementary neuronal recordings in primates, and functional neuroimaging in humans,
show that the primary taste cortex in the anterior insula provides separate and combined …

Decision-making can be broken down into several component processes: assigning values
to stimuli under consideration, selecting an option by comparing those values, and initiating …

The estimated values of choices, and therefore decision-making based on those values, are
influenced by both the chance that the chosen items or goods can be obtained (availability) …