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Inferring the value of the worldJonathan D Wallis
Department of Psychology and the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California at Berkeley, 132 Barker Hall, MC3190, Berkeley, CA 94720 3190, USA
Trends Cogn Sci 17:53-4. 2013..A recent study shows that this role is restricted to cases in which the value must be inferred from our knowledge of the world...- Contrasting reward signals in the orbitofrontal cortex and anterior cingulate cortexJonathan D Wallis
Department of Psychology and Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1239:33-42. 2011.... 
Cross-species studies of orbitofrontal cortex and value-based decision-makingJonathan D Wallis
Department of Psychology, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA
Nat Neurosci 15:13-9. 2012..This will enable us to fully realize the benefits of using multiple approaches to understand OFC function...- Heterogeneous reward signals in prefrontal cortexJonathan D Wallis
Department of Psychology, University of California at Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Curr Opin Neurobiol 20:191-8. 2010..These two areas show very different patterns of connectivity with other brain areas, and it is currently unclear how this effects their contribution to decision-making... 
Neuronal mechanisms in prefrontal cortex underlying adaptive choice behaviorJonathan D Wallis
University of California at Berkeley, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1121:447-60. 2007..Future research will focus on delineating the differential contributions of the OFC and the MPFC to decision making...- Orbitofrontal cortex and its contribution to decision-makingJonathan D Wallis
Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute and the Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 3190, USA
Annu Rev Neurosci 30:31-56. 2007..Thus, acting together, these prefrontal areas can ensure that our behavior is most efficiently directed towards satisfying our needs... - The dynamics of learning and behavioral flexibilityJonathan D Wallis
Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute and Department of Psychology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Neuron 71:959-61. 2011..In this issue of Neuron, a new study by Morrison et al. shows that underlying these processes are qualitatively different dynamical interactions between brain structures involved in processing the value of environmental stimuli... - Double dissociation of value computations in orbitofrontal and anterior cingulate neuronsSteven W Kennerley
Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, UK
Nat Neurosci 14:1581-9. 2011.... - Encoding of reward and space during a working memory task in the orbitofrontal cortex and anterior cingulate sulcusSteven W Kennerley
Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 3190, USA
J Neurophysiol 102:3352-64. 2009..They also suggest that neither PFo nor PFcs play a direct role in the control of spatial attention... - Reversible large-scale modification of cortical networks during neuroprosthetic controlKarunesh Ganguly
Department of Neurology and Rehabilitation, San Francisco VA Medical Center, San Francisco, California, USA
Nat Neurosci 14:662-7. 2011..Thus, the process of learning BMI control is associated with differential modification of neural populations based on their specific relation to movement control... - Encoding of gustatory working memory by orbitofrontal neuronsAntonio H Lara
Department of Psychology and Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720 3190, USA
J Neurosci 29:765-74. 2009..Maintaining gustatory information may be one aspect of a wider function for OFC in reward working memory that could contribute to its role in decision-making... - Dynamic encoding of responses and outcomes by neurons in medial prefrontal cortexChung Hay Luk
Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720 3190, USA
J Neurosci 29:7526-39. 2009..This capability may contribute to several of the functions of MPFC, such as action valuation, error detection, and decision making... - Choice coding in frontal cortex during stimulus-guided or action-guided decision-makingChung Hay Luk
Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute and Department of Psychology, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720 3190, USA
J Neurosci 33:1864-71. 2013..These results are consistent with a division of labor between the two areas in terms of using rewards associated with either stimuli or actions to guide decision-making... - Reward-dependent modulation of working memory in lateral prefrontal cortexSteven W Kennerley
Department of Psychology and Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California at Berkeley, California 94720 3190, USA
J Neurosci 29:3259-70. 2009..The pattern of results is consistent with a role for ventrolateral PFC in attentional control... - Neurons in the frontal lobe encode the value of multiple decision variablesSteven W Kennerley
Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute and Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 3190, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 21:1162-78. 2009..This supports the notion that the ACC is an important component of the neural circuitry underlying optimal decision making... - Oscillatory phase coupling coordinates anatomically dispersed functional cell assembliesRyan T Canolty
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:17356-61. 2010..These findings suggest that neuronal oscillations enable selective and dynamic control of distributed functional cell assemblies... - Evaluating choices by single neurons in the frontal lobe: outcome value encoded across multiple decision variablesSteven W Kennerley
Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute and Department of Psychology, University of California at Berkeley, 132 Barker Hall MC 3190, Berkeley, CA 94720 3190, USA
Eur J Neurosci 29:2061-73. 2009..These results support a role for the frontal cortex, principally ACC, in selecting between choice alternatives and evaluating the outcome of that selection thereby ensuring that choices are optimal and adaptive... - Cortical representation of ipsilateral arm movements in monkey and manKarunesh Ganguly
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
J Neurosci 29:12948-56. 2009..Together, our results demonstrate the presence of a high-fidelity neural representation for ipsilateral movement and illustrates that it can be successfully incorporated into a brain-machine interface... - Neural circuitry underlying rule use in humans and nonhuman primatesSilvia A Bunge
Department of Psychology, Center for Mind and Brain, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA
J Neurosci 25:10347-50. 2005 - Neuronal activity in primate dorsolateral and orbital prefrontal cortex during performance of a reward preference taskJonathan D Wallis
The Picower Center for Learning and Memory, RIKEN MIT Neuroscience Research Center and Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, E25 236, 45 Carleton Street, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Eur J Neurosci 18:2069-81. 2003..Further, reward selectivity arose more rapidly in the OFC than the DLPFC. These results are consistent with reward information entering the PFC via the OFC, where it is passed to the DLPFC and used to control behaviour... - The prefrontal cortex: categories, concepts and cognitionEarl K Miller
Center for Learning and Memory, RIKEN MIT Neuroscience Research Center and Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 357:1123-36. 2002..In short, the prefrontal cortex seems to underlie our internal representations of the 'rules of the game'. This may provide the necessary foundation for the complex behaviour of primates, in whom this structure is most elaborate... - A comparison of abstract rules in the prefrontal cortex, premotor cortex, inferior temporal cortex, and striatumRahmat Muhammad
The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, RIKEN-MIT Neuroscience Research Center, and Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusets Institute of Technology, MA 02139, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 18:974-89. 2006..These findings are discussed in the context of the anatomy and posited functions of these areas... - Evaluating apples and orangesJonathan D Wallis
Nat Neurosci 9:596-8. 2006 - Neural correlates of categories and conceptsEarl K Miller
Picower Center for Learning and Memory, RIKEN MIT Neuroscience Research Center, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
Curr Opin Neurobiol 13:198-203. 2003..Recent studies have revealed their neural correlates in various cortical areas of the non-human primate brain... - From rule to response: neuronal processes in the premotor and prefrontal cortexJonathan D Wallis
Picower Center for Learning and Memory, RIKEN MIT Neuroscience Research Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 02139, USA
J Neurophysiol 90:1790-806. 2003..In contrast, neurons encoding the behavioral response were more prevalent in the PMC, and the selectivity was stronger and appeared earlier in the PMC than in the PFC...
Research Grants
- The Neural Representation of Reward in Working MemoryJonathan Wallis; Fiscal Year: 2007..rewards may provide us with a clearer understanding of the pathology of addiction, and with alternative therapeutic strategies aimed at boosting top-down control and attenuating the likelihood of relapse in the recovering addict ..
- The Neural Representation of Reward in Working MemoryJonathan Wallis; Fiscal Year: 2007..abstract_text> ..
- The Neural Representation of Reward in Working MemoryJonathan Wallis; Fiscal Year: 2009..rewards may provide us with a clearer understanding of the pathology of addiction, and with alternative therapeutic strategies aimed at boosting top-down control and attenuating the likelihood of relapse in the recovering addict ..
- Neural representation of reward in frontal cortexJonathan D Wallis; Fiscal Year: 2010....
- Neural representation of reward in frontal cortexJonathan D Wallis; Fiscal Year: 2010....