An fMRI study of risk-taking following wins and losses: Implications for the gambler's fallacy

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 271-281

  Xue, Gui ^a   Lu, Zhonglin ^a   Levin, Irwin P ^b   Bechara, Antoine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b E11 SSH   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Decision making; Emotion; Frontal cortex; Functional MRI; Gambler's fallacy; Orbitofrontal cortex; Reinforcement learning; Striatum

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CORPUS STRIATUM; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; PATHOLOGICAL GAMBLING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AROUSAL; BRAIN; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GAMBLING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; RISK-TAKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78651416463     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21015     Document Type: Article

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