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Accumulation of virtual tokens towards a jackpot reward enhances performance and value encoding in dorsal anterior cingulate cortex.

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Authors: Demetrio Ferro1,2,3, Habiba Azab4, Benjamin Y. Hayden4, Rubén Moreno-Bote1,2,5
ORCID iDs: Demetrio Ferro, Habiba Azab, Benjamin Y. Hayden, Rubén Moreno-Bote
  1. Center for Brain and Cognition, Universitat Pompeu Fabra,Barcelona, 08005 Spain
  2. Department of Information and Communications Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra,Barcelona, 08002 Spain
  3. Centre de Recerca Matemàtica, Edifici C, Campus Bellaterra,Bellaterra, 08193 Spain
  4. Department of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine,Houston, TX 77030 USA
  5. Serra Húnter Fellow Programme, Universitat Pompeu Fabra,Barcelona, 08002 Spain
Institutions: Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain); Centre de Recerca Matemàtica (Spain); Baylor College of Medicine (United States)
Journal: Nature communications, volume 17, issue 1, article 7554
Dates: received 18 March 2025; accepted 24 February 2026; published online 28 March 2026
Type: Research article · Language: English
License: CC BY-NC-ND
Identifiers: DOI 10.1038/s41467-026-70423-1 · PMID 41904153 · PMCID PMC13415791 · OpenAlex W7142192958
Open access: gold, a free copy (OpenAlex)
Status: code verified (how the code is found and verified)
Categories: non-human primate (organism), cognitive (subfield)
Methods: Machine learning, Connectivity, Statistics, Physiology & signal measures
Keywords: Decision, Reward, Neural encoding
MeSH: Choice Behavior*, Decision Making*, Gyrus Cinguli*, Reward*, Animals, Female, Macaca mulatta, Male, Risk-Taking (* major topic)
Topic: Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies (Neurology, Neuroscience), according to OpenAlex
Funding: - Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033) - FEDER A way of making Europe (ref: PID2023-146524NB) - ICREA ACADÈMIA (2022) funded by the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (Barcelona, Spain)
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doi:10.12751/g-node.1kkrw6

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Ferro, D., Azab, H., Hayden, B. Y., & Moreno-Bote, R. (2026). Accumulation of virtual tokens towards a jackpot reward enhances performance and value encoding in dorsal anterior cingulate cortex. Nature communications, 17(1), 7554. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-70423-1

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@article{ferro2026accumulation,
author = {Ferro, Demetrio and Azab, Habiba and Hayden, Benjamin Y. and Moreno-Bote, Rubén},
title = {{Accumulation of virtual tokens towards a jackpot reward enhances performance and value encoding in dorsal anterior cingulate cortex}},
journal = {Nature communications},
year = {2026},
month = mar,
volume = {17},
number = {1},
pages = {7554},
publisher = {Nature Publishing Group},
issn = {2041-1723},
doi = {10.1038/s41467-026-70423-1},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-70423-1},
pmid = {41904153},
pmcid = {PMC13415791}
}

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