The rodent orbitofrontal cortex gets time and direction.
The orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) helps direct decision making through its flexible coding of reward and economic value. In this issue of Neuron, papers by Roesch et al. and Feierstein et al. demonstrate the importance of temporal and spatial features to processing in the rodent OFC.
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David H
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Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37203, USA.
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