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    • Behavioral Economics

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    • Real-world decisions often require balancing short-term gains against long-term benefits.
    • Previous research has not fully elucidated the neural mechanisms underlying strategic long-term planning in non-human primates.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To investigate whether apparently suboptimal single-trial decisions in macaques represent strategic long-term planning.
    • To identify the neural correlates of reward-maximizing aborting behavior in the macaque brain.

    Main Methods:

    • Macaques navigated a virtual reality environment with sequentially presented targets, with opportunities to abort offers.
    • Reinforcement-learning (RL) models, specifically modular actor-critic networks, were used to simulate and understand the observed behavior.
    • Electrophysiological recordings (single units and population dynamics) were performed in macaque dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC), parietal area 7a, and dorsomedial superior temporal area (MSTd).

    Main Results:

    • Macaques strategically aborted offers, forgoing immediate rewards to maximize overall session returns, indicating individual long-run performance reasoning.
    • RL models supported this behavior, suggesting a policy module informed by state-action values for rapid optimization.
    • Neural activity in dlPFC, but not 7a or MSTd, reflected the upcoming reward-maximizing aborting behavior upon offer presentation.

    Conclusions:

    • Macaque behavior demonstrates strategic long-term planning by selectively aborting offers for greater session-long rewards.
    • The dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) appears to function as a specialized policy module for strategic decision-making.
    • These findings contrast with models emphasizing distributed belief-network processing and highlight the role of specific prefrontal regions in optimizing long-term outcomes.