Comparing Apples and Oranges: Using Reward-Specific and Reward-General Subjective Value Representation in the Brain

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Summary

It is found that risk preferences across reward types were highly correlated; the level of risk aversion an individual showed when choosing among monetary lotteries predicted their risk aversion toward food and water; and that partially distinct neural networks represent the SVs of monetary and food rewards and that these distinct networks showed specific convergence points.

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Published
2011-10-12
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Keywords

Ventromedial prefrontal cortex, Valuation (finance), Ventral striatum, Psychology, Posterior cingulate

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