NeurosciencebioRxivPreprint
Ventromedial prefrontal cortex shields value computations from bodily arousal in decision making
Patricia Christian, Jakob Kaiser, Georgia Eleni Kapetaniou…·Alexander Soutschek
This study shows that ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) excitability decouples value computations from physiological arousal during normative decision making, increasing selfishness in social interactions.
DOI 10.1101/2025.11.07.687164