Restricting temptations: Neural mechanisms of precommitment

Neuron

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 391-401

  Crockett, MollyJ ^a,b,c   Braams, BarbaraR ^d   Clark, Luke ^a   Tobler, PhilippeN ^b   Robbins, TrevorW ^a   Kalenscher, Tobias ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONNECTOME; DECISION MAKING; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPULSIVENESS; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; PRECOMMITMENT; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD; SELF CONTROL; WILLPOWER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE NET; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REWARD; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84880649827     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2013.05.028     Document Type: Article

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