The medial temporal lobes are critical for reward-based decision making under conditions that promote episodic future thinking

Hippocampus

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 345-353

  Palombo, Daniela J ^a,b   Keane, Margaret M ^a,b,c   Verfaellie, Mieke ^a,b  

^a VA BOSTON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c WELLESLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Amnesia; Delay discounting; Hippocampus; Mental time travel; Temporal discounting

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; BRAIN DAMAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DELAY DISCOUNTING; EPISODIC FUTURE THINKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; THINKING; BRAIN INJURY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONDITIONING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN INJURIES; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REWARD; TEMPORAL LOBE; THINKING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84922615793     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.22376     Document Type: Article

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