Department of Neuroscience

Research Abstract

Economic choice takes place when individuals make choices solely based on subjective preferences—for example out of a restaurant menu. Choice behavior is a traditional focus in economics and psychology, and a large body of work shows that human choices suffer from various “fallacies”. Economic choice is also important from a medical perspective, as choice deficits are often observed in patients with neurological disorders of the frontal lobe and in addiction... read more

Selected Publications

• Ballesta S*, Shi W*, Conen KE and Padoa-Schioppa C (2020). Values encoded in orbitofrontal cortex are causally related to economic choices. Nature 588, 450-453. (* equal contribution)
• Kuwabara M, Kang N, Holy TE and Padoa-Schioppa C (2020). Neural mechanisms of economic choices in mice. eLife 2020, 9, e49669.
• Rustichini A, Conen KE, Cai X and Padoa-Schioppa C (2017). Optimal coding and neuronal adaptation in economic decisions. Nature Communications 8, 1208.
• Xie J and Padoa-Schioppa C (2016). Neuronal remapping and circuit persistence in economic decisions. Nature Neuroscience 19: 855-61. PMCID 4882218
• Padoa-Schioppa C (2013). Neuronal origins of choice variability in economic decisions. Neuron 80, 1322-36. PMCID 3857585
• Padoa-Schioppa C (2009). Range-adapting representation of economic value in the orbitofrontal cortex. Journal of Neuroscience 29, 14004-14. PMCID 19890010
• Padoa-Schioppa C and Assad JA (2006). Neurons in orbitofrontal cortex encode economic value. Nature 441, 223-226. PMCID 16177830

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