Decisions under uncertainty: Probabilistic context influences activation of prefrontal and parietal cortices

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 13, 2005, Pages 3304-3311

  Huettel, Scott A ^a,c   Song, Allen W ^a   McCarthy, Gregory ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DURHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Executive function; fMRI; Response selection; Risk; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSULA; MOTOR CORTEX; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PARIETAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROBABILITY; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 16344374875     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5070-04.2005     Document Type: Article

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