Neural Mechanisms Underlying The Cognitive Regulation Of Value Attribution: Abstraction Of Contextual Information In The Monkey Hippocampus

Human and animal studies have pointed to valence systems (reward valuation, reward prediction error) and to cognitive constructs such as working memory and cognitive control as potentially malfunctioning in several psychiatric disorders characterized by difficulties with emotional regulation. Animal studies have shown encoding of both valences at cellular level coexisting with the encoding of cognitive constructs. The purpose of this study is to investigate the modulatory mechanisms of cognitive constructs on reward valuation.