{"pk":28831,"title":"Neural Substrates Mediating the Utility of Instrumental Divergence","subtitle":null,"abstract":"We assessed the neural substrates mediating a recentlydemonstrated preference for environments with high levels ofinstrumental divergence – a formal index of flexible operantcontrol. Across choice scenarios, participants chose betweengambling environments that differed in terms of bothinstrumental divergence and expected monetary pay-offs.Using model-based fMRI, we found that activity in theventromedial prefrontal cortex scaled with a divergence-based measure of expected utility that reflected the value ofboth divergence and monetary reward. Implications for aneural common currency for information theoretic andeconomic variables are discussed.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"instrumental divergence; flexible control; utility;model-based fMRI"}],"section":"Papers with Poster Presentations","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9582f6bc","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Kaitlyn","middle_name":"G.","last_name":"Norton","name_suffix":"","institution":"","department":""},{"first_name":"Mimi","middle_name":"","last_name":"Liljeholm","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Irvine","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2019-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/28831/galley/18702/download/"}]}