• DOI:10.1016/j.pneurobio.2008.09.001
Corpus ID: 432027

The orbitofrontal cortex and beyond: From affect to decision-making

@article{Rolls2008TheOC,
  title={The orbitofrontal cortex and beyond: From affect to decision-making},
  author={E. Rolls and F. Grabenhorst},
  journal={Progress in Neurobiology},
  year={2008},
  volume={86},
  pages={216-244}
}

E. Rolls, F. Grabenhorst

Published 2008

Psychology, Medicine

Progress in Neurobiology

The orbitofrontal cortex represents the reward or affective value of primary reinforcers including taste, touch, texture, and face expression. It learns to associate other stimuli with these to produce representations of the expected reward value for visual, auditory, and abstract stimuli including monetary reward value. The orbitofrontal cortex thus plays a key role in emotion, by representing the goals for action. The learning process is stimulus-reinforcer association learning. Negative… CONTINUE READING

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