creators_name: Shizgal, Peter
type: journalp
datestamp: 1998-03-06
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:53:36
metadata_visibility: show
title: Neural Basis of Utility Estimation
ispublished: pub
subjects: behav-neuro-sci
full_text_status: public
abstract: 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
date_type: published
publication: Current Opinion in Neurobiology
volume: 7
number: 2
pagerange: 198-208
refereed: TRUE
citation:   Shizgal, Peter  (1997) Neural Basis of Utility Estimation.  [Journal (Paginated)]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/1/1/CUR_OP_E-print_version.html
document_url: http://cogprints.org/1/4/cur_op_e-print_version.PDF