Neural Correlates of Adaptive Decision Making for Risky Gains and Losses.

A study was conducted to investigate whether decisions about potential gains and potential losses require different neural structures for advantageous choices. Data were obtained from two samples: 16 subjects with brain lesions in the chronic phase of recovery and 30 nonpatient comparison subjects...

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Publicado en:Psychological Science. Vol. 18; no. 11; pp. 958 - 965
Autores principales: Weller, Joshua A., Levin, Irwin P., Shiv, Baba, Bechara, Antoine
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Publicado: HWW Temp November 2007
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