Adolescents' risky decision-making activates neural networks related to social cognition and cognitive control processes

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 1 FEB, 2014, Pages

  Rodrigo, María José ^a   Padrón, Iván ^a   de Vega, Manuel ^a   Ferstl, Evelyn C ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adolescent risk and ambiguous decision making; Age and gender differences; Dangerous and safe choices; Decision making in social context; Emotional and social cognitive processing; fMRI

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL TASK; MOTOR CONTROL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; SOCIAL ATTITUDE; SOCIAL COGNITION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84894034492     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00060     Document Type: Article

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