Performance of healthy participants on the Iowa Gambling Task

Psychological Assessment

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 180-193

  Steingroever, Helen ^a   Wetzels, Ruud ^a   Horstmann, Annette ^b,c   Neumann, Jane ^b,c   Wagenmakers, Eric Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Between group variability; Choice behavior; Exploration exploitation; Frequency of losses; Within group variability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; DECISION MAKING; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IOWA GAMBLING TASK; MENTAL TASK; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; REINFORCEMENT; SOCIAL ATTITUDE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TASK PERFORMANCE; VALIDATION STUDY;

DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 84876333785     PISSN: 10403590     EISSN: 1939134X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0029929     Document Type: Article

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