The Somatic Marker Hypothesis and Its Neural Basis: Using Past Experiences to Forecast the Future in Decision Making

Predictions in the Brain: Using Our Past to Generate a Future

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Bechara, Antoine ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; Decision making; Delayed outcome; Time horizons; Ventromedial prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922761296     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195395518.003.0048     Document Type: Chapter

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