Fig. 2ACC activity was higher in forages than decisions (A), better related to the inverse value difference (VD) during decisions than foraging (B), reflected the main effect of search value during foraging (C), and related better to search VD than decision VD (D). ACC time courses during engage (E) and search (F). (G) Individual peak ACC BOLD β weights 5 to 10 s after forage stimulus onset correlated with behavioral effects of the search value on search behavior (bottom), whereas ACC β weights of best search value component predicted repeated searching (top). VmPFC exhibited no such correlations. (H) Time course for engage forages and the subsequent decision phase: The search value (red) signal continued into the decision phase. Reward magnitudes associated with chosen (green) and unchosen (orange) components of encounter value (left) were represented from their onset in the forage phase and into the decision phase. The reward probabilities of the chosen and unchosen options were only revealed after engaging, and their BOLD effects therefore appear later (right).