A neuroeconomic theory of the decision process

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 52, 2009, Pages 22145-22150

  Dickhaut, John ^a   Rustichini, Aldo ^b   Smith, Vernon ^a  

^a CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Signal detection; Stochastic choice

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COST; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ERROR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION; NERVE CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOCHASTIC MODEL; THEORY; TIME;

EID: 76049119072     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0912500106     Document Type: Article

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