When the choice is ours: Context and agency modulate the neural bases of decision-making

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Forstmann, Birte U ^a   Wolfensteller, Uta ^b   Derrfuss, Jan ^b,c   Neumann, Jane ^b   Brass, Marcel ^b   Ridderinkhof, K Richard ^a   Von Cramon, D Yves ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^c FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CINGULATE GYRUS; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; DECISION MAKING; EYE FIXATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL CONTROL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VOLUNTEER; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; HISTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; THINKING; TIME;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; THINKING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 44849098224     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0001899     Document Type: Article

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