Effects of emotional preferences on value-based decision-making are mediated by mentalizing and reward networks

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2197-2210

  Evans, Simon ^a   Fleming, Stephen M ^a   Dolan, Raymond J ^a   Averbeck, Bruno B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CINGULATE GYRUS; CORPUS STRIATUM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; EMOTIONALITY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD; TASK PERFORMANCE;

BAYES THEOREM; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DECISION MAKING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; REWARD; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; THEORY OF MIND; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79960143012     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2010.21584     Document Type: Article

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