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Science 11 July 2003:
Vol. 301. no. 5630, pp. 179 - 180
DOI: 10.1126/science.1087383
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Perspectives

NEUROSCIENCE:
Predicting Future Rewards

Barry J. Richmond, Zheng Liu, Munetaka Shidara

Goal-directed behavior affects all aspects of society, but unraveling which brain areas are responsible remains a challenge. In their Perspective, Richmond and colleagues discuss new work (Matsumoto et al.) showing that the lateral and medial prefrontal cortex of monkey brain controls several different aspects of goal-directed behavior.

B. J. Richmond and Z. Liu are at the Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. E-mail: bjr{at}nih.gov M. Shidara is at Systems Neuroscience Group, Neuroscience Research Institute, AIST, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.

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