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@article{ODoherty2001AbstractRA,
  title={Abstract reward and punishment representations in the human orbitofrontal cortex},
  author={John P. O’Doherty and Morten L. Kringelbach and Morten L. Kringelbach and Edmund T. Rolls and J. Hornak and C. Andrews},
  journal={Nature Neuroscience},
  year={2001},
  volume={4},
  pages={95-102},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:52848707}
}

Findings indicate that one emotional involvement of the human orbitofrontal cortex is its representation of the magnitudes of abstract rewards and punishments, such as receiving or losing money.

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The orbitofrontal cortex and reward.

Evidence shows that the orbitofrontal cortex is involved in decoding and representing some primary reinforcers such as taste and touch; in learning and reversing associations of visual and other stimuli to these primary rein forcers; and in controlling and correcting reward-related and punishment-related behavior, and thus in emotion.