The human amygdala encodes value and space during decision making

NeuroImage

Volumn 101, Issue , 2014, Pages 712-719

  Ousdal, Olga Therese ^a,b,c   Specht, Karsten ^b,d   Server, Andres ^a   Andreassen, Ole A ^a   Dolan, Ray J ^c   Jensen, Jimmy ^a,e  

^a OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^e KRISTIANSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Anterior cingulate cortex; Emotion; FMRI; Spatial coding; Value

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RESPONSE TIME; REWARD; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION; BRAIN MAPPING; CINGULATE GYRUS; DEPTH PERCEPTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; BRAIN MAPPING; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; REWARD; SPACE PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84907057023     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.07.055     Document Type: Article

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