Decision neuroscience: choices of description and of experience.
A new study suggests that individuals differentially recruit neural regions associated with decision making, depending on whether the information about the options are learned through experience or merely described.
Jessup
Ryan K
RK
Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
O'Doherty
John P
JP
D001479:Basal Ganglia / Q000502:physiology*; D001931:Brain Mapping; D003657:Decision Making / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning / Q000502:physiology*; D009474:Neurons / Q000378:metabolism*; D010296:Parietal Lobe / Q000502:physiology*; D017397:Prefrontal Cortex / Q000502:physiology*