Brain activity in valuation regions while thinking about the future predicts individual discount rates

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 32, 2013, Pages 13150-13156

  Cooper, Nicole ^a   Kable, Joseph W ^a   Kim, B Kyu ^b   Zauberman, Gal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BOLD SIGNAL; CORPUS STRIATUM; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; FUTUROLOGY; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THINKING; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BASAL GANGLIA; BRAIN MAPPING; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTENTION; JUDGMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; REWARD; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84881183897     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0400-13.2013     Document Type: Article

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