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The dynamic nature of value-based decisions

Nature Neuroscience volume 19, pages 866–867 (2016)Cite this article

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During a binary choice task, neuronal activity in monkey orbitofrontal cortex alternated between two network states. The internal dynamics revealed by a linear decoder correlated with the reaction time and with the eventual choice.

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Figure 1: Conceptual summary of the results of Rich and Wallis5.

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  1. Katherine E. Conen and Camillo Padoa-Schioppa are in the Department of Neuroscience, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.,

    Katherine E Conen & Camillo Padoa-Schioppa

  2. Camillo Padoa-Schioppa is also in the Departments of Economics and Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.,

    Camillo Padoa-Schioppa

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