Instead, these and the prior **data** point strongly to the possibility that economic value and the resultant decision-making depend on parallel processing in multiple regions (Hunt and Hayden, 2017). Such parallel processing would be predicted if the value judgement underlying economic choice, at least as assayed in this task, reflected a variety of associative information (e.g. Pavlovian and instrumental, model-based and model-free, habitual and goal-directed). This is likely because the economic choice task used here, and those employed in other settings, generally do not try to limit or control the associative information at play. Tasks that employ such controls have clearly demonstrated that these different types of associative information do not generally converge into a single common brain region, but instead are mediated by somewhat non-overlapping brain circuits, each capable of mediating behavior somewhat independently, particularly in simple or poorly-controlled settings. Our results are more consistent with this sort of distributed representation of value.