Does the brain calculate value?

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 546-554

  Vlaev, Ivo ^a   Chater, Nick ^b   Stewart, Neil ^c   Brown, Gordon D A ^c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL DATA; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

NEUROPHYSIOLOGY;

BEHAVIOR CONTROL; BEHAVIOR THEORY; BRAIN FUNCTION; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; LIFESTYLE; PERSONAL VALUE; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; THEORY VALIDATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 82455192207     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: 1879307X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2011.09.008     Document Type: Review

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