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Science 18 June 2004:
Vol. 304. no. 5678, pp. 1753 - 1754
DOI: 10.1126/science.1099898
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Perspectives

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NEUROSCIENCE:
Enhanced: Matchmaking

Nathaniel D. Daw and Peter Dayan

Neuroscientists are intrigued by the neural events that determine decision-making. In their Perspective, Daw and Dayan discuss new work (Sugrue et al.) showing that the activity of monkey parietal cortex neurons correlates with an economic variable measuring the relative worth of two targets offering variable rewards in a matching task.

The authors are at the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London, London WC1N 3AR, UK. E-mail: dayan{at}gatsby.ucl.ac.uk

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