Executive functions, categorization of probabilities, and learning from feedback: What does really matter for decision making under explicit risk conditions?

Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1025-1039

  Schiebener, Johannes ^a   Zamarian, Laura ^b   Delazer, Margarete ^b   Brand, Matthias ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^c ERWIN L HAHN INSTITUTE FOR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING   (Germany)

Author keywords

Decisions under risk; Executive functions; Feedback learning; Game of Dice Task; Iowa Gambling Task; Probability Associated Gambling Task

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; DECISION MAKING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; GAME; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; DECISION MAKING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84855675846     PISSN: 13803395     EISSN: 1744411X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13803395.2011.595702     Document Type: Review

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