Weilbächer Regina A, Gluth Sebastian
Department of Psychology, University of Basel, Basel 4055, Switzerland.
Brain Sci. 2016 Dec 29;7(1):4. doi: 10.3390/brainsci7010004.
Episodic memory and value-based decision making are two central and intensively studied research domains in cognitive neuroscience, but we are just beginning to understand how they interact to enable memory-based decisions. The two brain regions that have been associated with episodic memory and value-based decision making are the hippocampus and the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, respectively. In this review article, we first give an overview of these brain-behavior associations and then focus on the mechanisms of potential interactions between the hippocampus and ventromedial prefrontal cortex that have been proposed and tested in recent neuroimaging studies. Based on those possible interactions, we discuss several directions for future research on the neural and cognitive foundations of memory-based decision making.
情景记忆和基于价值的决策是认知神经科学中两个核心且深入研究的领域，但我们才刚刚开始理解它们如何相互作用以促成基于记忆的决策。分别与情景记忆和基于价值的决策相关联的两个脑区是海马体和腹内侧前额叶皮层。在这篇综述文章中，我们首先概述这些脑与行为的关联，然后聚焦于海马体和腹内侧前额叶皮层之间潜在相互作用的机制，这些机制已在近期的神经影像学研究中被提出并得到验证。基于这些可能的相互作用，我们讨论了未来关于基于记忆的决策的神经和认知基础研究的几个方向。
