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| ArticleTitle | The calculating brain: how the monetary value is coded in the brain |
| Language | J |
| AuthorList | Ken-Ichiro Tsutsui |
| Affiliation | Division of Systems Neuroscience, Tohoku University Graduate School of Life Sciences |
| Publication | Japanese Journal of Neuropsychology: 25 (1), 20-29, 2009 |
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| Abstract | Money is one of the higher-order rewards, whose value is established through experiences. Numbers of evidence suggest that, in the reward-related regions, i.e. the targets of dopamine projections, the values of higher-order rewards are established by integrating sensory and reward information. It was suggested by our recent brain imaging study that the value of monetary reward or punishment is robustly represented in the cingulate cortex. Furthermore, it was also suggested that the involvement of the prefrontal cortex is necessary for the higher-order judgments and decisions for the pursuit of monetary wealth. |
| Keywords | reward system, dopamine, cingulated cortex, prefrontal cortex |
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