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The orbitofrontal cortex and ventral striatum encode expected outcomes during economic decision-making. Research now demonstrates that activity in these structures also represents missed opportunities during a foraging task cleverly designed to elicit regret in rats, the Restaurant Row task.

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Figure 1: Neural encoding of regret in OFC and ventral striatum in rats performing the Restaurant Row task.

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  1. Daniel W. Bryden and Matthew R. Roesch are in the Department of Psychology and the Program in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science, Gregory B. Bissonette, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA.,

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