Paduoa-Schioppa Article

Question 1

What is the paper topic?

Answer 1

Neurons in the orbitofrontal cortex encode economic value

Question 2

What is the Orbitofrontal Cortex?

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It encodes economic value which relates to decision-making

Question 3

What is value-based decision-making?

Answer 3

Weighing the costs and benefits & incentive salience (‘wanting’)

Question 4

What is the hypothesis?

Answer 4

The orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) is implicated in economic choice, and encodes the value of offered + chosen goods

Question 5

What were some of the methods?

Answer 5

Choice task with monkeys

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What were some of the results?

Answer 6

Categorizing of OFC (13) neurons into 3 categories: Chosen value (independent of the visuomotor contingencies of task/ specifics of the reward), offered value (assumes linear value functions), taste value (modulates the activity of neurons in sensory + motor regions, parietal neurons encode value for all possible courses of action)