Journal article
Ventromedial prefrontal cortex encodes a latent estimate of cumulative reward.
- Abstract:
-
Humans and other animals accumulate resources, or wealth, by making successive risky decisions. If and how risk attitudes vary with wealth remains an open question. Here humans accumulated reward by accepting or rejecting successive monetary gambles within arbitrarily defined temporal contexts. Risk preferences changed substantially toward risk aversion as reward accumulated within a context, and blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) signals in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (PFC) tracked t...
Expand abstract
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
Actions
Authors
Funding
+ Economic and Social Research Council
More from this funder
Grant:
Advanced Quantitative Methods Ph.D. grant
Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Elsevier Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Neuron Journal website
- Volume:
- 93
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 705-714.e4
- Publication date:
- 2017-02-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-12-23
- DOI:
- ISSN:
-
0896-6273 and 1097-4199
- Source identifiers:
-
681532
Item Description
- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
- Pubs id:
-
pubs:681532
- UUID:
-
uuid:bcda5b97-ac86-4bb0-812e-ab3907f33be6
- Local pid:
- pubs:681532
- Deposit date:
- 2017-03-06
Terms of use
- Copyright date:
- 2017
If you are the owner of this record, you can report an update to it here: Report update to this record