The State of the Orbitofrontal Cortex.

Neuron

National Institute on Drug Abuse, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA; Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA; Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience, The John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA. Electronic address:

Published: December 2015

State representation is fundamental to behavior. However, identifying the true state of the world is challenging when explicit cues are ambiguous. Here, Bradfield and colleagues show that the medial OFC is critical for using associative information to discriminate ambiguous states.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5541257PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2015.12.004DOI Listing

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