Hypothetical and real choice differentially activate common valuation areas
| Autor: | Min Jeong Kang, Antonio Rangel, Mickael Camus, Colin F. Camerer |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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Male Adolescent Decision Making Emotions Stimulus (physiology) Choice Behavior Gyrus Cinguli Young Adult medicine Humans Valuation (finance) Brain Mapping medicine.diagnostic_test General Neuroscience Ventral striatum Brain Articles Middle Aged Magnetic Resonance Imaging Frontal Lobe medicine.anatomical_structure Orbitofrontal cortex Psychology Functional magnetic resonance imaging Social psychology Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience. 31(2) |
| ISSN: | 1529-2401 |
| Popis: | Hypothetical reports of intended behavior are commonly used to draw conclusions about real choices. A fundamental question in decision neuroscience is whether the same type of valuation and choice computations are performed in hypothetical and real decisions. We investigated this question using functional magnetic resonance imaging while human subjects made real and hypothetical choices about purchases of consumer goods. We found that activity in common areas of the orbitofrontal cortex and the ventral striatum correlated with behavioral measures of the stimulus value of the goods in both types of decision. Furthermore, we found that activity in these regions was stronger in response to the stimulus value signals in the real choice condition. The findings suggest that the difference between real and hypothetical choice is primarily attributable to variations in the value computations of the medial orbitofrontal cortex and the ventral striatum, and not attributable to the use of different valuation systems, or to the computation of stronger stimulus value signals in the hypothetical condition. |
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