Excitatory stimulation of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex reduces cognitive gambling biases via improved feedback learning

Abstract Humans are subject to a variety of cognitive biases, such as the framing-effect or the gambler's fallacy, that lead to decisions unfitting of a purely rational agent. Previous studies have shown that the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) plays a key role in making rational decisio...

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Main Authors: Thomas Kroker, Miroslaw Wyczesany, Maimu Alissa Rehbein, Kati Roesmann, Ida Wessing, Anja Wiegand, Jens Bölte, Markus Junghöfer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-10-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-43264-x