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Neurons in anterior cingulate cortex multiplex information about reward and action

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Hayden, Benjamin Y., Platt, Michael L.·2010·The Journal of Neuroscience

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The dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) is thought to play a critical role in forming associations between rewards and actions. Currently available physiological data, however, remain inconclusive regarding the question of whether dACC neurons carry information linking particular actions to reward or, instead, encode abstract reward information independent of specific actions. Here we show that firing rates of a majority of dACC neurons in a population studied in an eight-option variably rewarded choice task were sensitive to both saccade direction and reward value. Furthermore, the influences of reward and saccade direction on neuronal activity were approximately equal in magnitude over the range of rewards tested and were statistically independent. Our results indicate that dACC neurons multiplex information about both reward and action, endorsing the idea that this area links motivational outcomes to behavior and undermining the notion that its neurons solely contribute to reward processing in the abstract.

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Authors
Hayden, B. Y., & Platt, M. L.
Affiliations
Duke University (US)
Venue
The Journal of Neuroscience
Published
2010-03-03
Volume
30
Issue
9
Pages
3339-3346
ISSN
  • 0270-6474 (ISSN-L)
  • 1529-2401
OpenAlex
W2078352770
Cited by
236
References
63
Citations by year
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FWCI
8.12
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Journal of Neuroscience (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institutes of Health
  • National Institute on Drug Abuse (F32DA023338, K99DA027718, DA023338)
  • National Eye Institute (R01EY013496)
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 › Neural dynamics and brain function
Keywords
dorsal anterior cingulate cortex, reward encoding, action encoding, saccade direction, reward value, neuronal firing rate, multiplexing, choice behavior
MeSH terms
Action Potentials, Animals, Attention, Electrophysiology, Gyrus Cinguli, Macaca mulatta, Male, Motivation, Neurons, Neuropsychological Tests, Orientation, Photic Stimulation, Psychomotor Performance, Reward, Saccades, Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted

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