title: Neural Basis of Utility Estimation
creator: Shizgal, Peter
subject: Behavioral Neuroscience
description: The allocation of behavior among competing activities and goal objects depends on the payoffs they provide.Payoff is evaluated among multiple dimensions including intensity, rate, delay, and kind. Recent findings suggest that by triggering a stream of action potentials in myelinated, medial forebrain bundle axons, rewarding electrical brain stimulation delivers a meaningful intensity signal to the process that computes payoff. 
date: 1997
type: Journal (Paginated)
type: PeerReviewed
format: text/html
identifier: http://cogprints.org/1/1/CUR_OP_E-print_version.html
format: application/pdf
identifier: http://cogprints.org/1/4/cur_op_e-print_version.PDF
identifier:   Shizgal, Peter  (1997) Neural Basis of Utility Estimation.  [Journal (Paginated)]     
relation: http://cogprints.org/1/