What do I want and when do I want it: brain correlates of decisions made for self and other.

A number of recent functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) studies on intertemporal choice behavior have demonstrated that so-called emotion- and reward-related brain areas are preferentially activated by decisions involving immediately available (but smaller) rewards as compared to (larger) de...

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Main Authors: Konstanze Albrecht, Kirsten G Volz, Matthias Sutter, D Yves von Cramon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3749998?pdf=render