Cortical Brain Activity Reflecting Attentional Biasing Toward Reward-Predicting Cues Covaries with Economic Decision-Making Performance

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 1-11

  San Martín, René ^a,d   Appelbaum, Lawrence G ^a,b   Huettel, Scott A ^a,b,c   Woldorff, Marty G ^a,b,c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DIEGO PORTALES   (Chile)

Author keywords

EEG; ERP; learning; N2pc; reward

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL AMPLITUDE; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; ATTENTIONAL BIAS; DECISION MAKING; DOUBLE DISSOCIATION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD PREDICTING CUE; THINKING; ADOLESCENT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EVOKED RESPONSE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REACTION TIME; REWARD; VISION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CUES; DECISION MAKING; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; REWARD; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84959872274     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhu160     Document Type: Article

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