To bet or not to bet? The error negativity or error-related negativity associated with risk-taking choices

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 684-696

  Yu, Rongjun ^a   Zhou, Xiaolin ^a,b,c  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CAPITAL NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONFLICT; DECISION MAKING; ERROR; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; RESPONSE VARIABLE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WAVEFORM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEEDBACK; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REACTION TIME; RISK-TAKING; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65449181635     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2009.21034     Document Type: Article

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