Spiking Phineas Gage: A Neurocomputational Theory of Cognitive-Affective Integration in Decision Making.

The authors present a neurological theory of how cognitive information and emotional information are integrated in the nucleus accumbens during effective decision making. They describe how the nucleus accumbens acts as a gateway to integrate cognitive information from the ventromedial prefrontal cor...

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Published in:	Psychological Review Vol. 111; no. 1; pp. 67 - 80
Main Authors:	Wagar, Brandon M., Thagard, Paul
Format:	Article
Published:	American Psychological Association January 2004
Subjects:	Decision making Emotions Cognition Brain function localization
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost