Self-Control in Decision-Making Involves Modulation of the vmPFC Valuation System

By Todd A. Hare, Colin F. Camerer, Antonio Rangel. Science, 2009

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, General Decision Sciences

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Hierarchical Active Inference: A Theory of Motivated Control (2018, background): “, inhibition of craving) and strategic emotion regulation [99].”
Peers increase adolescent risk taking by enhancing activity in the brain’s reward circuitry (2011, neutral): “…of incentive processing regions (Ernst, Nelson, McClure, Monk, Munson, Eshel, Zarahn, Leibenluft, Zametkin, Towbin, Blair, Charney & Pine, 2004; Hare, Camerer & Rangel, 2009; Kuhnen & Knutson, 2005; Matthews, Simmons, Lane & Paulus, 2004; McClure, Laibson, Loewenstein & Cohen, 2004) and the…”
Neural computations associated with goal-directed choice. (2010, background): “[33 ] studied dietary choices that involve selfcontrol.”
Episodic future thinking reduces reward delay discounting through an enhancement of prefrontal-mediotemporal interactions. (2010, methodology): “Finally, in the self-control model, values are assumed to be represented in structures such as the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) but are subject to topdown modulation by prefrontal control regions such as the lateral PFC (Figner et al., 2010; Hare et al., 2009).”
Social and monetary reward learning engage overlapping neural substrates. (2012, background): “…and medial sectors of the prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) in several human fMRI (Kable and Glimcher, 2007; Plassmann et al., 2007; Tom et al., 2007; Hare et al., 2008, 2009; Chib et al., 2009; FitzGerald et al., 2009; Litt et al., 2009; Levy et al., 2010; Plassmann et al., 2010) and non-human…”
Separate Valuation Subsystems for Delay and Effort Decision Costs (2010, result): “Although our vmPFC was more posterior than the anterior medial PFC reported in this study, it overlapped with the vmPFC region associated with valuation in other paradigms (Plassmann et al., 2007; Behrens et al., 2008; Hare et al., 2009).”
Neural computations underlying arbitration between model-based and model-free learning (2013, background): “We found significant correlations in ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) with such a weighted signal corresponding to the difference in weighted values between the chosen and unchosen actions (Boorman et al., 2009; Hare et al., 2009; Rushworth et al., 2011) (p<0.”
Motivation and cognitive control: from behavior to neural mechanism. (2015, background): “…incentive cues (Bijleveld et al. 2009, Zedelius et al. 2014); the impact of control on motivation itself, as seen in the setting of self-control (Hare & Rangel 2009, Wagner et al. 2013); individual differences related to stable personality traits (Braem et al. 2013, Jimura et al. 2010); and…”
A gradient of childhood self-control predicts health, wealth, and public safety (2011, background): “Neuroscientists study self-control as an executive function subserved by the brain’s frontal cortex (1, 2) and have uncovered brain structures and systems involved when research participants exert self-control (3).”