Decision-making under risk: An fMRI study

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1642-1652

  Hewig, Johannes ^a   Straube, Thomas ^a   Trippe, Ralf H ^a   Kretschmer, Nora ^a   Hecht, Holger ^a   Coles, Michael G H ^b   Miltner, Wolfgang H R ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONFLICT; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD; RISK; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; PROBLEM SOLVING; RISK-TAKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67650418154     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2009.21112     Document Type: Article

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