Mind the gap: Bridging economic and naturalistic risk-taking with cognitive neuroscience

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 11-19

  Schonberg, Tom ^a,b   Fox, Craig R ^b,c   Poldrack, Russell A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN REGIONS; COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCES; ECONOMIC RISKS; NEURAL SUBSTRATES; RISK TAKING;

BRAIN;

CINGULATE GYRUS; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; NATURALISTIC INQUIRY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSCIENCE; ORBITAL CORTEX; PERCEPTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REVIEW; RISK;

COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; MODELS, ECONOMIC; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NEUROSCIENCES; RISK-TAKING;

EID: 78650755452     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2010.10.002     Document Type: Review

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