Sentences with phrase «medial orbitofrontal»

(Thanks medial orbitofrontal cortex.

For example, the medial orbitofrontal cortex is thought to be heavily involved with «values of potential decision outcomes and adjusting those values based on learnings and experiences of reward or punishment.»

Notable, areas in the medial orbitofrontal region and the anterior cingulate cortex, which are relevant for self - referential appraisal and aesthetic judgments, were found to be activated during the listening.

Among its jobs, the medial orbitofrontal cortex keeps our emotions from getting out of control.

We found enhanced activity in the rostral anterior cingulate cortex [rACC; MNI space coordinates (x, y, z): — 6, 41, 22; Z = 3.85; P < 0.0005] and medial orbitofrontal cortex (mObfc; 6, 49, — 19; Z = 3.42; P < 0.0005), ventral anterior cingulate cortex (vACC; 13, 32, — 14; Z = 4.56; P < 0.0005 uncorrected), and the vmPFC -LRB--- 4, 39, — 13; Z = 3.48; P < 0.0005).

They found that compassion training increased activity in the medial orbitofrontal cortex and ventral striatum, areas associated with love and reward; empathy training increased activity in the insula and anterior cingulate cortex, typically involved in registering another's pain.

The medial orbitofrontal cortex has been associated with signaling when we feel satiated by a certain type of food (so called «sensory specific satiety»).

Just around the time that the nature of the dilemma crossed the border from impersonal to personal, I would see your amygdala and related brain circuits — your medial orbitofrontal cortex, for example — light up like a pinball machine.

Not exact matches

In this model, the cognitive control system including prefrontal and parietal regions and the anterior cingulate is crucial to decision - making but is functionally dominated by a second affective system that includes regions which are important to processing reward and social and emotional salience, including but not limited to the amygdala, ventral striatum, orbitofrontal cortex, medial prefrontal cortex, and the superior temporal sulcus.