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.
Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
Ryan K
RK
Jessup
John P
JP
O'Doherty
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*