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The orbitofrontal cortex and beyond: From affect to decision-making
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Rolls, Edmund T. and Grabenhorst, Fabian (2008) The orbitofrontal cortex and beyond: From affect to decision-making. Progress in Neurobiology, 86 (3). pp. 216-244. doi:10.1016/j.pneurobio.2008.09.001 ISSN 0301-0082.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pneurobio.2008.09.001
Abstract
The orbitofrontal cortex represents the reward or affective value of primary reinforcers including taste, touch, texture, and face expression. It learns to associate other stimuli with these to produce representations of the expected reward value for visual, auditory, and abstract stimuli including monetary reward value. The orbitofrontal cortex thus plays a key role in emotion, by representing the goals for action. The learning process is stimulus-reinforcer association learning. Negative reward prediction error neurons are related to this affective learning. Activations in the orbitofrontal cortex correlate with the subjective emotional experience of affective stimuli, and damage to the orbitofrontal cortex impairs emotion-related learning, emotional behaviour, and subjective affective state. With an origin from beyond the orbitofrontal cortex, top-down attention to affect modulates orbitofrontal cortex representations, and attention to intensity modulates representations in earlier cortical areas of the physical properties of stimuli. Top-down word-level cognitive inputs can bias affective representations in the orbitofrontal cortex, providing a mechanism for cognition to influence emotion. Whereas the orbitofrontal cortex provides a representation of reward or affective value on a continuous scale, areas beyond the orbitofrontal cortex such as the medial prefrontal cortex area 10 are involved in binary decision-making when a choice must be made. For this decision-making, the orbitofrontal cortex provides a representation of each specific reward in a common currency.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Computer Science | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Progress in Neurobiology | ||||
Publisher: | Elsevier BV | ||||
ISSN: | 0301-0082 | ||||
Official Date: | November 2008 | ||||
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Volume: | 86 | ||||
Number: | 3 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 216-244 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.pneurobio.2008.09.001 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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