Partially dissociable roles of OFC and ACC in stimulus-guided and action-guided decision making
- Khani, Abbas Visual Cognition Laboratory and Center for Cognition, Department of Medicine, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
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01.05.2014
Published in:
- Journal of Neurophysiology. - 2014, vol. 111, no. 9, p. 1717–1720
English
Recently, the functional specialization of prefrontal areas of the brain, and, specifically, the functional dissociation of the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) and the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), during decision making have become a particular focus of research. A number of neuropsychological and lesion studies have shown that the OFC and ACC have dissociable functions in various dimensions of decision making, which are supported by their different anatomical connections. A recent single-neuron study, however, described a more complex picture of the functional dissociation between these two frontal regions during decision making. Here, I discuss the results of that study and consider alternative interpretations in connection with other findings.
- Faculty
- Faculté des sciences et de médecine
- Department
- Département de Médecine
- Language
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- English
- Classification
- Biological sciences
- License
- License undefined
- Identifiers
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- RERO DOC 211489
- DOI 10.1152/jn.00323.2013
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/303605
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