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Neural mechanisms of economic commitment in the human medial prefrontal cortex

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Neurobiologists have studied decisions by offering successive, independent choices between goods or gambles. However, choices often have lasting consequences, as when investing in a house or choosing a partner. Here, humans decided whether to commit (by acceptance or rejection) to prospects that provided sustained financial return. BOLD signals in the rostral medial prefrontal cortex (rmPFC) encoded stimulus value only when acceptance or rejection was deferred into the future, suggesting a ro...

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Published
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Peer reviewed

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10.7554/elife.03701

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University of Oxford
Division:
MSD
Department:
Experimental Psychology
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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MSD
Department:
Experimental Psychology
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Author
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eLife Sciences Publications Publisher's website
Journal:
eLife Journal website
Volume:
2014
Issue:
3
Article number:
e03701
Publication date:
2014-11-11
Acceptance date:
2014-10-16
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2050-084X
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English
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pubs:487363
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uuid:0cc5d5d6-ac18-4fd7-b702-968c44f9a242
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pubs:487363
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487363
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2014-10-24

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