Orbitofrontal contributions to value-based decision making: Evidence from humans with frontal lobe damage

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1239, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 51-58

  Fellows, Lesley K ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Executive function; Lesion study; Neuropsychology; Reversal learning; Reward

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN INJURY; DECISION MAKING; DORSOMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; FRONTAL LOBE DAMAGE; HUMAN; LEARNING; ORBITAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SOCIOECONOMICS; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 83155190334     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2011.06229.x     Document Type: Article

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