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Little is known about the human orbitofrontal cortex and its role in encoding information, although studies in the monkey suggest that it plays an important role in memory. This thesis describes a series of functional neuroimaging studies that investigated the contribution of the orbitofrontal cortex when normal human subjects were engaged in encoding information.