@article {310778,
	title = {Re-valuing the amygdala.},
	journal = {Curr Opin Neurobiol},
	volume = {20},
	year = {2010},
	month = {04/2010},
	pages = {221-30},
	abstract = {<p>Recent advances indicate that the amygdala represents valence: a general appetitive/aversive affective characteristic that bears similarity to the neuroeconomic concept of value. Neurophysiological studies show that individual amygdala neurons respond differentially to a range of stimuli with positive or negative affective significance. Meanwhile, increasingly specific lesion/inactivation studies reveal that the amygdala is necessary for processes--for example, fear extinction and reinforcer devaluation--that involve updating representations of value. Furthermore, recent neuroimaging studies suggest that the human amygdala mediates performance on many reward-based decision-making tasks. The encoding of affective significance by the amygdala might be best described as a representation of state value-a representation that is useful for coordinating physiological, behavioral, and cognitive responses in an affective/emotional context.</p>
},
	keywords = {Affect, Amygdala, Animals, Cognition, Decision making, Emotions, Fear, Humans, Judgment, Models, Animal, Motivation, Reward},
	issn = {1873-6882},
	doi = {10.1016/j.conb.2010.02.007},
	author = {Morrison, S. E. and Salzman, C. D.}
}
