Time discounting for primary rewards

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 21, 2007, Pages 5796-5804

  McClure, Samuel M ^a   Ericson, Keith M ^b   Laibson, David I ^b,c   Loewenstein, George ^d   Cohen, Jonathan D ^a,e  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

ACC; Discounting; DLPFC; Medial prefrontal cortex; Primary reward; Ventral striatum

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; NERVE CELL; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD; TIME; BRAIN CORTEX; COMPARATIVE STUDY; PHYSIOLOGY;

CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REWARD; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34250690358     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4246-06.2007     Document Type: Article

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