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Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Science
  • Decision Science

Background:

  • Reward value is multifaceted, involving hedonic ('liking') and motivational ('wanting') aspects.
  • Brain regions, including the ventral striatum (VS), process these reward dimensions, but the selection mechanism remains unclear.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how the human brain distinguishes and processes hedonic versus motivational evaluations of everyday items.
  • To elucidate the neural mechanisms underlying the flexible selection of reward dimensions for guiding behavior.

Main Methods:

  • Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was employed to observe brain activity in human participants.
  • Participants made hedonic ('liking') or motivational ('wanting') evaluations of items, with outcomes involving wins or losses.

Main Results:

  • Ventral striatum (VS) activity encoded both hedonic and motivational reward dimensions.
  • Ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) primarily encoded motivational evaluations, while central orbitofrontal cortex (cOFC) encoded hedonic evaluations.
  • VS showed preferential processing of the currently evaluated reward dimension and specific functional connectivity with dimension-specific prefrontal areas.

Conclusions:

  • A gating mechanism involving prefrontal cortex (PFC)-VS pathways flexibly encodes reward dimensions based on behavioral relevance.
  • These findings suggest a generalized information selection mechanism driven by content-tailored frontostriatal communication.