Erie D. Boorman and MaryAnn P. Noonan
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780262016438
- eISBN:
- 9780262298490
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262016438.003.0004
- Subject:
- Neuroscience, Behavioral Neuroscience
This chapter considers the functional contributions of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (VMPFC), the adjacent lateral orbital frontal cortex (OFC), and the frontal polar cortex (FPC) to ...
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This chapter considers the functional contributions of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (VMPFC), the adjacent lateral orbital frontal cortex (OFC), and the frontal polar cortex (FPC) to reinforcement learning and value-based choice. It presents the results of the experiments investigating VMPFC, OFC, and FPC function in humans and macaque monkeys.Less
This chapter considers the functional contributions of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (VMPFC), the adjacent lateral orbital frontal cortex (OFC), and the frontal polar cortex (FPC) to reinforcement learning and value-based choice. It presents the results of the experiments investigating VMPFC, OFC, and FPC function in humans and macaque monkeys.
Steven W. Kennerley and Philippe N. Tobler
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780262016438
- eISBN:
- 9780262298490
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262016438.003.0005
- Subject:
- Neuroscience, Behavioral Neuroscience
This chapter presents recent findings from single neuron electrophysiology and functional neuroimaging with respect to the role of the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), the lateral prefrontal cortex ...
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This chapter presents recent findings from single neuron electrophysiology and functional neuroimaging with respect to the role of the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), the lateral prefrontal cortex (LPFC), the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), and the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (VMPFC) in decision making. These findings are based on decision-making frameworks that highlight several cognitive processes such as the representation of internal states, the determination of outcome value, the adaptive coding of outcome value, the determination of action costs, linking value to action, and the integration or specialization of decision variable representations.Less
This chapter presents recent findings from single neuron electrophysiology and functional neuroimaging with respect to the role of the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), the lateral prefrontal cortex (LPFC), the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), and the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (VMPFC) in decision making. These findings are based on decision-making frameworks that highlight several cognitive processes such as the representation of internal states, the determination of outcome value, the adaptive coding of outcome value, the determination of action costs, linking value to action, and the integration or specialization of decision variable representations.
Stephen Darwall
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780199357666
- eISBN:
- 9780199357697
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199357666.003.0007
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Moral Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind
Joshua Greene argues that science can advance ethics and that, in particular, empirical evidence tends to support characteristically consequentialist over deontological judgments, because ...
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Joshua Greene argues that science can advance ethics and that, in particular, empirical evidence tends to support characteristically consequentialist over deontological judgments, because characteristically deontological judgments are frequently tied to, and perhaps the product of, automatic emotional responses, which should lead us to have less confidence in them than in consequentialist judgments. This chapter argues that Greene’s experimental results are compatible with a certain kind of rule consequentialism, acceptance rule consequentialism, and that since the dictates of this kind of rule consequentialism are “characteristically deontological,” this means that Greene’s analysis should not lead us to have more confidence in characteristically consequentialist judgments rather than characteristically deontological judgments.Less
Joshua Greene argues that science can advance ethics and that, in particular, empirical evidence tends to support characteristically consequentialist over deontological judgments, because characteristically deontological judgments are frequently tied to, and perhaps the product of, automatic emotional responses, which should lead us to have less confidence in them than in consequentialist judgments. This chapter argues that Greene’s experimental results are compatible with a certain kind of rule consequentialism, acceptance rule consequentialism, and that since the dictates of this kind of rule consequentialism are “characteristically deontological,” this means that Greene’s analysis should not lead us to have more confidence in characteristically consequentialist judgments rather than characteristically deontological judgments.
