Cortical areas needed for choosing actions based on desires

Sanjay G Manohar; Thomas Akam

doi:10.1093/brain/awx119

Cortical areas needed for choosing actions based on desires

Brain. 2017 Jun 1;140(6):1539-1542. doi: 10.1093/brain/awx119.

Authors

Sanjay G Manohar¹, Thomas Akam²

Affiliations

¹ Nuffield Department of Clinical Neuroscience, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
² Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford; Fundação Champalimaud, Lisbon, Portugal.

Abstract

This scientific commentary refers to ‘Selective impairment of goal-directed decision-making following lesions to the human ventromedial prefrontal cortex’, by Reber et al. 2017 (doi:10.1093/brain/awx105).

Publication types

Comment

MeSH terms

Decision Making
Goals*
Humans
Motivation*
Prefrontal Cortex

Grants and funding

MR/P00878X/1/MRC_/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom