Confidence in value-based choice

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 105-110

  De Martino, Benedetto ^a,b,d   Fleming, Stephen M ^a,c   Garrett, Neil ^a   Dolan, Raymond J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUNGER; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; JUDGMENT; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOPHYSICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84871713695     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.3279     Document Type: Article

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