Among three different executive functions, general executive control ability is a key predictor of decision making under objective risk

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue DEC, 2014, Pages

  Schiebener, Johannes ^a   Wegmann, Elisa ^a   Gathmann, Bettina ^a   Laier, Christian ^a   Pawlikowski, Mirko ^a   Brand, Matthias ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

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

Author keywords

Decisions under risk; Executive functions; Game of dice task; Monitoring; Self control; Structural equation model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923328468     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01386     Document Type: Article

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