Executive control and decision-making in the prefrontal cortex

By Philippe Domenech, Etienne Koechlin. 2015

198 citations recorded by the source corpus.

The prefrontal cortex (PFC) subserves decision-making and executive control. Here we review recent empirical and modeling works with a focus on neuroimaging studies, which start unifying these two conceptual approaches of PFC function. We propose that the PFC comprises two arbitration systems: (1) a peripheral system comprising premotor/caudal PFC regions and orbitofrontal regions involved in the selection of actions based on perceptual cues and reward values, respectively, and embedded in behavioral sets associated with external contingencies inferred as being stable; (2) a core system comprising ventromedial, dorsomedial, lateral and polar PFC regions involved in superordinate probabilistic reasoning for arbitrating online between exploiting/adjusting previously learned behavioral sets and exploring/creating new ones for efficient adaptive behavior in variable and open-ended environments.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/9db720840bc15f82183d02d842ff64f30a769bbd

Citations in the corpus

• Distinct neural oscillations predict individual differences in feedback-guided cognitive flexibility (2026, unknown): “Reward-related modulation of α oscillations was found in the ventromedial PFC that has earlier been shown to play a major role in reward processing and decision making ( Kennerley and Walton 2011; Domenech and Koechlin 2015).”
• Distinct neural oscillations predict covert switching between stable and unstable cognitive representations (2025, unknown): “Reward-related modulation of  oscillations was found in the ventromedial PFC that has earlier been shown to play a major role in reward processing and decision making (Domenech & Koechlin, 2015; Kennerley & Walton, 2011).”