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What the orbitofrontal cortex does not do
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The number of papers about the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) has grown from 1 per month in 1987 to a current rate of over 50 per month. This publication stream has implicated the OFC in nearly every function known to cognitive neuroscience and in most neuropsychiatric diseases. However, new ideas about OFC function are typically based on limited data sets and often ignore or minimize competing ideas or contradictory findings. Yet true progress in our understanding of an area's function comes as much from invalidating existing ideas as proposing new ones. Here we consider the proposed roles for OFC, critically examining the level of support for these claims and highlighting the data that call them into question.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Stalnaker, T. A., Cooch, N. K., & Schoenbaum, G.
- Affiliations
- National Institutes of Health (US)
- Corresponding author
- Schoenbaum, Geoffrey
- Venue
- Nature Neuroscience
- Published
- 2015-04-28
- Volume
- 18
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 620-627
- ISSN
- 1097-6256 (ISSN-L)
- 1546-1726
- PMC
- PMC5541252
- OpenAlex
- W2020689320
- Cited by
- 531
- References
- 147
- Citations by year
- 2026: 15 · 2025: 41 · 2024: 45 · 2023: 34 · 2022: 45 · 2021: 59 · 2020: 77 · 2019: 55 · 2018: 60 · 2017: 33 · 2016: 50 · 2015: 16
- FWCI
- 5.27
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Nature Neuroscience (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- National Institutes of Health (Z99 DA999999)
- National Institute on Aging
- National Institute of Mental Health
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (ZIADA000587)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Keywords
- orbitofrontal cortex, neuropsychiatric disorders, cognitive neuroscience
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Brain Mapping, Decision Making, Emotions, Humans, Inhibition, Psychological, Judgment, Learning, Models, Neurological, Models, Psychological, Primates, Reward, Prefrontal Cortex, Rats
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