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Neural mechanisms of economic commitment in the human medial prefrontal cortex
- Abstract:
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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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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- 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
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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2050-084X
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:487363
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- Local pid:
- pubs:487363
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487363
- Deposit date:
- 2014-10-24
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- Copyright holder:
- Tsetsos et al
- Copyright date:
- 2014
- Notes:
- © 2014, Tsetsos et al. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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