Study shows how individual neurons process probability, magnitude and risk of rewards

Researchers have gained a new understanding of how the brain processes reward and risk information. A study by neuroscientists Raymundo Báez-Mendoza from the German Primate Center (DPZ)—Leibniz Institute for Primate Research in Göttingen and Fabian Grabenhorst from the University of Oxford shows how nerve cells in the amygdala not only encode the probability and magnitude of rewards, but also dynamically process this information to predict value and risk.