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

• Xie J and Padoa-Schioppa C (2016). Neuronal remapping and circuit persistence in economic decisions. Nature Neuroscience 19: 855-61. PMCID 4882218
• Rustichini A and Padoa-Schioppa C (2015). A neuro-computational model of economic decisions. Journal of Neurophysiology 114, 1382-98. PMID 26063776
• Conen KE and Padoa-Schioppa C (2015). Neuronal variability in orbitofrontal cortex during economic decisions. Journal of Neurophysiology 114, 1367-81. PMID 26084903
• Cai X and Padoa-Schioppa C (2014). Contributions of orbitofrontal and lateral prefrontal cortices to economic choice and the good-to-action transformation. Neuron 81, 1140-51. PMCID 3951647
• 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 (2008). The representation of economic value in the orbitofrontal cortex is invariant for changes of menu. Nature Neuroscience 11, 95-102. PMCID 18066060
• Padoa-Schioppa C and Assad JA (2006). Neurons in orbitofrontal cortex encode economic value. Nature 441, 223-226. PMCID 16177830

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