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During a binary choice task, neuronal activity in monkey orbitofrontal cortex alternated between two network states. The internal dynamics revealed by a linear decoder correlated with the reaction time and with the eventual choice.

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Figure 1: Conceptual summary of the results of Rich and Wallis5.

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  1. Katherine E. Conen and Camillo Padoa-Schioppa are in the Department of Neuroscience, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.,

    Katherine E Conen & Camillo Padoa-Schioppa

  2. Camillo Padoa-Schioppa is also in the Departments of Economics and Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.,

    Camillo Padoa-Schioppa

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Conen, K., Padoa-Schioppa, C. The dynamic nature of value-based decisions. Nat Neurosci 19, 866–867 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.4329

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