Prefrontal-amygdala interactions underlying value coding

Erin L Rich; Jonathan D Wallis

doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2013.11.027

Prefrontal-amygdala interactions underlying value coding

Neuron. 2013 Dec 18;80(6):1344-6. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2013.11.027.

Authors

Erin L Rich¹, Jonathan D Wallis²

Affiliations

¹ Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
² Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA; Department of Psychology, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. Electronic address: wallis@berkeley.edu.

PMID: 24360539
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2013.11.027

Abstract

Dissociating the source and function of value-related signals is a major challenge for understanding the role of reward in neural processing. In this issue of Neuron, Rudebeck et al. (2013) provide insight into the neuroanatomical origins of a subset of these signals.

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MeSH terms

Amygdala / physiology*
Animals
Male
Prefrontal Cortex / physiology*
Reward*