The Value of Persistent Value

Frederic M Stoll; Peter H Rudebeck

doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2019.08.018

The Value of Persistent Value

Neuron. 2019 Sep 4;103(5):757-758. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2019.08.018.

Authors

Frederic M Stoll¹, Peter H Rudebeck²

Affiliations

¹ Nash Family Department of Neuroscience and Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA. Electronic address: frederic.stoll@mssm.edu.
² Nash Family Department of Neuroscience and Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA. Electronic address: peter.rudebeck@mssm.edu.

PMID: 31487525
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2019.08.018

Abstract

In this issue of Neuron, Bari et al. (2019) show that neurons in medial frontal cortex, but not a nearby premotor area, encode the relative value of available options with long-lasting persistent activity states during naturalistic foraging. These long-lasting activity states serve to preferentially guide choices to more likely rewarded options.

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MeSH terms

Frontal Lobe
Motor Cortex*
Neurons
Reward

Grants and funding

R01 MH110822/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States