The affective impact of financial skewness on neural activity and choice

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Wu, Charlene C ^a   Bossaerts, Peter ^b   Knutson, Brian ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ANTICIPATION; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GUSTATORY CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREDICTION; SELF REPORT; TASK PERFORMANCE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGICAL GAMBLING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

AFFECT; ANTICIPATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AROUSAL; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GAMBLING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SELF REPORT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79951912807     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016838     Document Type: Article

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