Category Archives: values

different activities of medial prefrontal cortex sub-regions associated with strategic conformity to social hierarchy in decision making

Posted on January 11, 2024 by liz

Posted comment on ´Distinctive roles of medial prefrontal cortex subregions in strategic conformity to social hierarchy` written by D.Kim, J.Kim and H.Kim and published in Journal of Neuroscience 2023 vol 43(36) p.6330 doi 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0549-23.2023 SUMMARY Kim, Kim and Kim looked … Continue reading →

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amygdala role in attention shift to learned versus innate biological value objects

Posted on March 11, 2023 by liz

Posted comment on ´Attention to stimuli of learned versus innate biological value relies on separate neural systems` written by P.M.Kaskan. M.A. Nicholas, A.M. Dean and E.A. Murray and published in Journal of Neuroscience 2022 42 (49) p. 9242 doi 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0925-22.2022 … Continue reading →

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prior cocaine exposure changes firing in insula relating to reward-guided decision-making

Posted on October 11, 2021 by liz

Posted comment on ´Prior cocaine exposure increases firing to immediate reward while attenuating cue and context signals related to reward value in the insula` written by H.J. Pribut, D. Vazquez, A.T. Brockett, A.D. Wei, S.S. Tennyson and M.R.Roesch and published … Continue reading →

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updating beliefs under perceived threat

Posted on August 12, 2019 by liz

Posted comment on ´Updating beliefs under perceived threat` by N. Garrett, A.M. Gonzalez-Garzon, L. Levita and T. Sharot and published in Journal of Neuroscience 2018 vol. 38 (36) p. 7901 doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0716-18.2018 SUMMARY Garrett and colleagues sought with their experiments described … Continue reading →

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nucleus accumbens activity predicts group behaviour in crowdfunding task

Posted on December 12, 2018 by liz

Posted comment on ´When brain beats behaviour: neuroforecasting crowdfunding outcomes` by A. Genevsky, C. Yoon and B. Knutson and published in Journal of Neuroscience vol 37(36) 2017 p. 8625, doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1633-16.2017 COMMENT Genevsky, Yoon and Knutson investigated whether neural activity could … Continue reading →

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