There is limited data in the literature to explicitly support the notion that neurons in OFC are truly action-independent in their coding. We set out to specifically test the hypothesis that OFC value-related neurons in area 13 m of the monkey do not carry information about the action required to obtain that reward – that activity in this area represents reward values in an abstract and action-independent manner. To accomplish that goal we had two monkeys select and execute saccadic eye movements to 81 locations in the visual field for three different kinds of juice rewards. Our detailed analysis of the response fields indicates that these neurons are insensitive to the amplitude or direction of the saccade required to obtain these rewards. Our data thus validate earlier proposals that neurons of 13 m in the OFC encode subjective value independent of the saccadic action required to obtain that reward.

across blocks of trials. The results were specific to orbitofrontal damage, since patients with damage to the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex did not exhibit enhanced P3 amplitudes. These findings suggest that damage to the orbitofrontal cortex impairs the ability to modulate or inhibit neural responses

Background/Objectives—What drives overconsumption of food is poorly understood. Alterations in brain structure and function could contribute to increased food seeking. Recently brain orbitofrontal cortex volume has been implicated in dysregulated eating but little is know how brain structure

by different neural substrates: goal values are correlated with activity in the medial orbitofrontal cortex, decision values are correlated with activity in the central orbitofrontal cortex, and prediction errors are correlated with activity in the ventral striatum. Key words: decision making; neuroeconomics

Damage to the orbitofrontal cortex has been associated with disinhibited or socially inappropriate behavior and emotional irregularities (1–5). Prominent characteristics of several personality disorders, in particular DSM-IV borderline personality disorder, include impulsivity and affective

Predicting upcoming events from incomplete information is an es-sential brain function. The orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) plays a critical role in this process by facilitating recognition of sensory inputs via predictive feedback to sensory cortices. In the visual domain, the OFC is engaged by low

We have shown previously that the inhibitory control functions of the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) are disrupted by serotonin, but not dopamine depletions. However, both dopamine and serotonin terminals and receptors are present within the OFC and thus the aim of the present study was to determine

to the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) were significantly impaired on Choose, compared to both healthy controls and non-OFC lesion patients. The OFC lesion patients showed a mild deficit on the first 50 trials of the WPT, compared to the control subjects but not non-OFC lesion patients. The selective deficit in the OFC

posterior orbitofrontal cortex, area 13, of the rhesus monkey were activated from self-stimulation electrodes (in 142 of 168 possible instances), and that neurons in the anterior orbitofrontal areas were much less likely to be activated from the self-stimulation electrodes (in only 28 of 177

that the anticipation of regret is useful for steering decision-making and, to this end, tried to show that normal controls perform better on a gambling task than patients with lesions of the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), who do not appear to experience regret. However, the parameters of their gambling task raise