Decision-making in amnesia: Do advantageous decisions require conscious knowledge of previous behavioural choices?

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1315-1324

  Gutbrod, Klemens ^a   Kroužel, Claudine ^a   Hofer, Helene ^a   Müri, René ^a   Perrig, Walter ^b   Ptak, Radek ^c  

^a Neurologische Universitatsklinik Bern   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Amnesia; Decision making; Explicit memory; Implicit memory; Reinforcement; Somatic marker

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN DAMAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DIENCEPHALON; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; ORBITAL CORTEX; PUNISHMENT; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADULT; AMNESIA; CONSCIOUSNESS; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; GAMBLING; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 33646267675     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2006.01.014     Document Type: Article

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