Tonic activity level in the right prefrontal cortex predicts individuals' risk taking

Psychological Science

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 33-38

  Gianotti, Lorena R R ^a,b   Knoch, Daria ^a,b,c,d   Faber, Pascal L ^b   Lehmann, Dietrich ^b   Pascual Marqui, Roberto D ^b   Diezi, Christa ^b   Schoch, Cornelia ^b   Eisenegger, Christoph ^b   Fehr, Ernst ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PSYCHIATRY   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Collegium Helveticum   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CHARACTER; CONTROL; DECISION MAKING; DELTA RHYTHM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; LEARNING; MOTIVATION; PATHOLOGICAL GAMBLING; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; THETA RHYTHM;

ADULT; AROUSAL; CHARACTER; DECISION MAKING; DELTA RHYTHM; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GAMBLING; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MOTIVATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROBABILITY LEARNING; RISK-TAKING; THETA RHYTHM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58149295345     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02260.x     Document Type: Article

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