Anterior Prefrontal Function and the Limits of Human Decision-Making

By Etienne Koechlin, Alexandre Hyafil. Science, 2007

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Counterfactual Choice and Learning in a Neural Network Centered on Human Lateral Frontopolar Cortex (2011, background): “Moreover, we have demonstrated that when people are confronted with more than two alternatives, the FPC specifically encodes the evidence in favor of the unchosen alternative that would be most advantageous to be selected in the future, a finding consistent with the view that there may be limits to ”
How green is the grass on the other side? Frontopolar cortex and the evidence in favor of alternative courses of action. (2009, positive): “The FPC thus encodes information pertaining to potential but still temporally distant episodes of behavior (Koechlin, 2008; Koechlin and Hyafil, 2007 ).”
Goals and Habits in the Brain (2013, neutral): “These could depend sensitively on the hierarchical architectures of cognitive control in lateral and medial prefrontal regions and their striatal connections (Frank and Badre, 2012; Koechlin and Hyafil, 2007; Koechlin et al., 2003).”
The Antisocial Brain: Psychopathy Matters: A Structural MRI Investigation of Antisocial Male Violent Offenders (2012, background): “Recent computational modeling studies have demonstrated cognitive branching within the arMPFC, which enables 2 sets of competing information to be concurrently maintained, thus facilitating the simultaneous consideration of self and other perspectives.(82,83) The arMPFC is additionally engaged durin”
Process Overlap Theory: A Unified Account of the General Factor of Intelligence (2016, background): “These areas are therefore primary candidates for being the neural substrate of capacity limits (Dux et al., 2006; Koechlin & Hyafil, 2007; Marois & Ivanoff, 2005; Tombu et al., 2011), probably strongly affecting working memory and intelligence.”
The neuroscience of social decision-making. (2011, neutral): “VMPFC patients have been said to exhibit " myopia for the future " (Bechara & Damasio 2005), and the frontal pole has been implicated in protecting long-term mental plans from immediate environmental demands (Koechlin & Hyafil 2007) and in valuing future rewards (Kable & Glimcher 2007).”
Hierarchical models of behavior and prefrontal function. (2008, methodology): “Two levels of context are thus represented. (e) Koechlin’s [ 37 ] model of FPC function.”
An opportunity cost model of subjective effort and task performance (2013, positive): “…information being processed, as well along the anatomical dimensions of left-right, dorsal-ventral, and anterior-posterior (Badre & D’Esposito 2009; Botvinick 2008; Courtney 2004; D’Esposito et al. 2000; Fuster 1997; Koechlin & Hyafil 2007; Petrides 2000; Smith & Jonides 1998; Wager & Smith 2003).”
Executive control and decision-making in the prefrontal cortex (2015, positive): “Executive control research focuses on the PFC function in learning and switching between behavioral rules or sets that guide action [1,3–10].”
Neural computations underlying arbitration between model-based and model-free learning (2013, positive): “Our evidence additionally implicating the frontopolar cortex in the arbitration process is also compatible with previous proposals that frontopolar cortex sits at the apex of a hierarchical prefrontal organization for cognitive control (Koechlin and Hyafil, 2007).”
Mechanisms of hierarchical reinforcement learning in corticostriatal circuits 1: computational analysis. (2012, background): “…this type of hierarchical control, such that progressively rostral portions of frontal cortex govern control at higher levels of abstraction (Koechlin et al. 2000, 2003; Christoff et al. 2003, 2009; Koechlin and Hyaﬁl 2007; Badre and D’Esposito 2007; Badre et al. 2009; Kouneiher et al. 2009).”