Dissociable neural mechanisms track evidence accumulation for selection of attention versus action

oleh: Amitai Shenhav, Mark A. Straccia, Sebastian Musslick, Jonathan D. Cohen, Matthew M. Botvinick

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2018-06-01

Deskripsi

Decision-making involves parallel information processing regarding what stimulus dimension to pay attention to and what action to take. Here, the authors show that vmPFC tracks the value of the attended attribute while dACC tracks the degree to which it is attended.