title: For better or worse: reward comparison by the ventromedial prefrontal cortex.
abstract: In this issue of Neuron, Strait et al. (2014) studied how neurons in the monkey ventromedial prefrontal cortex encode value-based decisions. Neurons were commonly influenced by reward magnitude and probability, showed anticorrelation for better and worse options, and covaried with choice independent of value.
authors.affiliation: The John B. Pierce Laboratory and Department of Neurobiology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA.
authors.forename: Linda M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Amarante
authors.affiliation: The John B. Pierce Laboratory and Department of Neurobiology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA. Electronic address: mark.laubach@yale.edu.
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Laubach
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002755:Choice Behavior / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D009433:Neural Inhibition / Q000502:physiology*; D017397:Prefrontal Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D012201:Reward