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. 2019 Aug 14:8:e49828.
doi: 10.7554/eLife.49828.

Remembering to choose the future

Lesley K Fellows  1
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Remembering to choose the future

Lesley K Fellows. Elife. .

Abstract

A brain region known as the hippocampus is required when people assess different options before making a value-based choice.

Keywords: amnesia; decision making; fMRI; hippocampus; human; neuroscience; value.

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LF No competing interests declared

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