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Evaluating apples and oranges

Nature Neuroscience volume 9, pages 596–598 (2006)Cite this article

Orbitofrontal cortex damage impairs decision making. A recent article in Nature shows that this brain region is critical for computing the subjective value of an outcome and using this value signal to make choices

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Figure 1: The location of human orbitofrontal cortex.

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