Specialized Representations of Value in the Orbital and Ventrolateral Prefrontal Cortex: Desirability Versus Availability of Outcomes

Overview

Journal Neuron

Publisher Cell Press

Specialty Neurology

Date 2017 Sep 1

PMID 28858621

Citations 105

Authors

Peter H Rudebeck

Richard C Saunders

Dawn A Lundgren

Elisabeth A Murray

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Abstract

Advantageous foraging choices benefit from an estimation of two aspects of a resource's value: its current desirability and availability. Both orbitofrontal and ventrolateral prefrontal areas contribute to updating these valuations, but their precise roles remain unclear. To explore their specializations, we trained macaque monkeys on two tasks: one required updating representations of a predicted outcome's desirability, as adjusted by selective satiation, and the other required updating representations of an outcome's availability, as indexed by its probability. We evaluated performance on both tasks in three groups of monkeys: unoperated controls and those with selective, fiber-sparing lesions of either the OFC or VLPFC. Representations that depend on the VLPFC but not the OFC play a necessary role in choices based on outcome availability; in contrast, representations that depend on the OFC but not the VLPFC play a necessary role in choices based on outcome desirability.

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