Computational approaches to neural reward and development

Decision Making in the Economy of Nature: Value as Information

“…Neurobiologists interested in the neural basis of decision-making recently begin to use a continuist concept of decision-making by . They labeled 'biological decision-making' their object of study Montague et al, 2006;Montague & Quartz, 1999; see also Gintis, 2007 for a similar construal of decision-making). Without explicitly defining the term, their Decision-Making 6 research and methodology clearly show that they attempt to identify the structures and mechanisms that animals employ in the valuation, selection, and attainment of certain goals.…”