A Neural Mechanism Mediating the Impact of Episodic Prospection on Farsighted Decisions

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 6771-6779

  Benoit, Roland G ^a,b   Gilbert, Sam J ^b   Burgess, Paul W ^b  

^a MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EPISODIC PROSPECTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUTUROLOGY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGINATION; MALE; MEDICAL ROSTRAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; MONEY; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURCHASING; REWARD; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURONS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REWARD;

EID: 79955763525     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.6559-10.2011     Document Type: Article

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