Are risky choices actually guided by a compensatory process? New insights from fMRI

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Rao, Li Lin ^a   Zhou, Yuan ^a   Xu, Lijuan ^b   Liang, Zhu Yuan ^a   Jiang, Tianzi ^b   Li, Shu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY;

BRAIN MAPPING; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; RISK-TAKING; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952599444     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0014756     Document Type: Article

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