Value of freedom to choose encoded by the human brain

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 110, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1915-1929

  Fujiwara, Juri ^a,b,f   Usui, Nobuo ^c,f   Park, Soyoung Q ^a,d,e   Williams, Tony ^a   Iijima, Toshio ^b   Taira, Masato ^f   Tsutsui, Ken Ichiro ^b   Tobler, Philippe N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^e HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Consumer psychology; Democracy; Neuroeconomics; Reward; Valuebased decision making

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FREEDOM; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

CONSUMER PSYCHOLOGY; DEMOCRACY; NEUROECONOMICS; REWARD; VALUE-BASED DECISION MAKING;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CORPUS STRIATUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 84885663011     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01057.2012     Document Type: Article

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