Value

Question 1

VMPFC

Answer 1

Choose very utilitarian in high conflict experiments (railway switch)

Don’t have moral value as much as Normal Control

However, they have great difficulty making ordinary choices

Question 2

Generalised and automatic value system

Answer 2

Experiment:
- Shown faces/houses/painting
- Have to guess age
- Than have to judge in liking
- Than binary choice

It’s generalized bc it doesn’t prefer certain type
Automatic bc it’s also active when you’re judging the age. Seeing an object activates the VALUE system.

Question 3

Regions VALUE system

Answer 3

PCC (posterior cingulate cortex) Hippocampus, Ventral Striatum/Nacc , vmPFC

Question 4

Reward system

Answer 4

VTA, Nacc to PFC. Classical conditioning/operant conditioning

Reward response starts to shift to the cue, doesn’t come at the place of reward anymore

your brain is always trying to predict rewards, so it’‘ll only fire at the cue.

= reward prediction error

Question 5

VTA

Answer 5

dopamine releasing neurons signal reward or reward prediction

Question 6

Nacc

Answer 6

Ventral striatum signals value and motivation

Question 7

vmPFC

Answer 7

Signals value for broad range of choices, including moral value