Neural mechanisms underlying the impact of daylong cognitive work on economic decisions

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 25, 2016, Pages 6967-6972

  Blain, Bastien ^a,b,c   Hollard, Guillaume ^c   Pessiglione, Mathias ^a,b  

^a PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 1 PANTHÉON SORBONNE   (France)

Author keywords

Decision making; Executive control; Fatigue; fMRI; Temporal discounting

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FATIGUE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; IMPULSIVENESS; LATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RESPONSE TIME; REWARD; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY; ADULT; ECONOMICS;

ADULT; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMICS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HUMANS;

EID: 84975735366     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1520527113     Document Type: Article

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