Topic: aversive choices

Throughout our lifetime, we are constantly approaching or avoiding situations such as places associated with positive or negative outcomes, respectively. However, individuals are often confronted to a relative choice between two situations holding negative outcomes of different intensities, leading them to choose the least bad option. While extensive work focused on appetitive relative value coding, surprisingly little is known about the neural processes underlying relative value coding in an aversive context. To understand how animals make relative aversive choices, it is crucial to identify