Inferior parietal lobule supports decision making under uncertainty in humans

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 916-925

  Vickery, Timothy J ^a,c   Jiang, Yuhong V ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Decision making; Inferior parietal lobule; Reward

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GAME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; MALE; MEDIAL SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOME VARIABLE; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNCERTAINTY;

BRAIN MAPPING; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; PILOT PROJECTS; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 66749159835     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhn140     Document Type: Article

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