Planning activity for internally generated reward goals in monkey amygdala neurons

The best rewards are often distant and can only be achieved by planning and decision-making over several steps. We designed a multi-step choice task in which monkeys followed internal plans to save rewards towards self-defined goals. During this self-controlled behavior, amygdala neurons showed futu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hernádi, István, Grabenhorst, Fabian, Schultz, Wolfram
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4340753/