Performing a secondary executive task with affective stimuli interferes with decision making under risk conditions

Cognitive Processing

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 113-126

  Gathmann, Bettina ^a   Pawlikowski, Mirko ^a   Schöler, Tobias ^a   Brand, Matthias ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b ERWIN L HAHN INSTITUTE FOR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING   (Germany)

Author keywords

Affective stimuli; Decisions under risk; Game of Dice Task; Interference

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DEPENDENT VARIABLE; EMOTION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; REACTION TIME; RISK ASSESSMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY; ADOLESCENT; GAME; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DECISION MAKING; EMOTIONS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RISK-TAKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84899910526     PISSN: 16124782     EISSN: 16124790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10339-013-0584-y     Document Type: Article

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