PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Eliana Vassena
AU  - James Deraeve
AU  - William H. Alexander
TI  - Testing competing models of dorsal anterior cingulate
AID  - 10.1101/273706
DP  - 2018 Jan 01
TA  - bioRxiv
PG  - 273706
4099  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/02/28/273706.short
4100  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/02/28/273706.full
AB  - Recent theories have attempted to provide unifying accounts of dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC), a region routinely observed in studies of cognitive control and decision-making. Despite the proliferation of frameworks, rigorous empirical testing has lagged behind theory. Here we test competing predictions of three accounts of dACC using a simple value-based decision-making task. We find that the Predicted Response-Outcome model provides an integrative and parsimonious account of our results. Our results highlight the need for increased emphasis on empirical tests of theoretical frameworks.