Happy Endings Trip Up the Brain's Decision-Making (IMAGE)

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Happy Endings Trip Up the Brain's Decision-Making

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The overt choice was encoded in cingulate cortex, DLPFC and anterior insula (furthest left). The goal value was encoded in vmPFC (second left). The more suboptimal the decision-maker, the stronger the activity in the DLPFC (right).

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Vestergaard and Schultz, JNeurosci 2020

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