Decision making in the reward and punishment variants of the Iowa gambling task: Evidence of "foresight" or "framing" ?

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JULY, 2012, Pages 1-7

  Singh, Varsha ^a,b   Khan, Azizuddin ^c  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT KOZHIKODE   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

Decision making; Framing effect; Instructions; Iowa gambling task; Reward punishment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; POST HOC ANALYSIS; PUNISHMENT; REWARD; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84865186676     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2012.00107     Document Type: Article

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