Social Decision-Making and the Brain: A Comparative Perspective

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 265-276

  Tremblay, Sébastien ^a,b   Sharika, K M ^a   Platt, Michael L ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; DECISION MAKING; MAMMALS; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

BRAIN STRUCTURE; NEUROMODULATORS; NON-HUMAN ANIMALS; NON-HUMAN PRIMATE; RECENT RESEARCHES; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BRAINS; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GAZE; HUMAN; NEUROSCIENCE; NONHUMAN; OPTOGENETICS; PRIMATE; REVIEW; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; RAT;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; DECISION MAKING; MICE; PRIMATES; RATS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 85012904362     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: 1879307X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2017.01.007     Document Type: Review

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