Theories of orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) function have evolved substantially over the last few decades. There is now a general consensus that the OFC is important for predicting aspects of future events and for using these predictions to guide behavior. Yet the precise content of these predictions and the degree to which OFC contributes to agency contingent upon them has become contentious, with several plausible theories advocating different answers to these questions. In this review we will focus on three of these ideas-the economic value, credit assignment, and cognitive map hypotheses-describing both their successes and failures. We will propose that these failures hint at a more nuanced and perhaps unique role for the OFC, particularly the lateral subdivision, in supporting the proposed functions when an underlying model or map of the causal structures in the environment must be constructed or updated. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).

中文翻译：

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眶额制图师。


眶额皮质（OFC）功能的理论在过去几十年里有了很大的发展。现在人们普遍认为 OFC 对于预测未来事件的各个方面以及使用这些预测来指导行为非常重要。然而，这些预测的确切内容以及 OFC 对机构的贡献程度已引起争议，有几种看似合理的理论主张对这些问题给出不同的答案。在这篇评论中，我们将重点关注其中的三个想法——经济价值、信用分配和认知图假设——描述它们的成功和失败。我们认为，当必须构建或更新环境中因果结构的基础模型或地图时，这些失败暗示了 OFC（尤其是横向细分）在支持拟议功能方面具有更微妙且可能独特的作用。 （PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2021 APA，保留所有权利）。