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Figure 1: Activity of an imaginary orbitofrontal neuron reflecting relative reward preference.
Figure 2: Lateral and ventral views of the orbitofrontal cortex of the monkey.

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Watanabe, M. Attraction is relative not absolute. Nature 398, 661–663 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/19414

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