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Project Number: | I01CX001748-01 |
| Title: | Value-Based Decision-Making Following Medial Temporal Lobe Lesions |
| Principal Investigator: | Mieke Verfaellie |
| Location: | Boston, MA |
| Congressional District Code: | 7 |
| Research Service: | Clinical Science R&D |
| Project Period: | January 2019 - December 2022 |
| FY 2021 Funding Amount: | $164,319 |
| Total Award Amount (all years): |
$661,238 |
| Abstract: |
View full abstract and other project information on NIH RePORTER Go To NIH RePORTER Excerpt: Making optimal decisions depends on appreciation of the value of choices. An important source of information about the value of choices is prior experience: Positive experiences are more likely than negative ones to be selected again. Such value-based learning has long been considered the domain of trial-and-error incremental learning mediated by a cortico-striatal system. Recent evidence, however, suggests that in some conditions the medial temporal lobe (MTL), which mediates episodic memory, m... |