What drives us to pursue distant, more valuable goals over more proximate, lesser ones? Counter to what you might expect, this type of advanced goal-directed planning and foresight in primates may involve the amygdala. In a reward savings task, neurons in the amygdala track the length and subjective value of internally generated plans.
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Mosher, C., Rudebeck, P. The amygdala accountant: new tricks for an old structure. Nat Neurosci 18, 324–325 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.3949
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