A critical role for the hippocampus in the valuation of imagined outcomes.

Many choice situations require imagining potential outcomes, a capacity that was shown to involve memory brain regions such as the hippocampus. We reasoned that the quality of hippocampus-mediated simulation might therefore condition the subjective value assigned to imagined outcomes. We developed a...

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Main Authors: Maël Lebreton, Maxime Bertoux, Claire Boutet, Stéphane Lehericy, Bruno Dubois, Philippe Fossati, Mathias Pessiglione
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-10-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3805472?pdf=render