There seems to be a conflict, or at least confusion, in the literature whether the vmPFC and OFC are, in fact, separate areas. Additionally, the exact, or at least popularly accepted, location of these areas, seems quite elusive. Is this really a topic of contention, and is there any literature attempting to reconcile the many definitions and locations?
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You can find some help here : Executive control and decision-making in the prefrontal cortex. Philippe Domenech and Etienne Koechlin. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 2015.
Have you seen the papers by Price on this topic? If not, start here:
D. Ongür, J.L. Price
The organization of networks within the orbital and medial prefrontal cortex of rats, monkeys and humans
Cereb. Cortex, 10 (2000), pp. 206–219
For a more recent take, with more on functional considerations, see:
Haber, S. N., & Behrens, T. E. (2014). The neural network underlying incentive-based learning: implications for interpreting circuit disruptions in psychiatric disorders. Neuron, 83(5), 1019-1039.
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