Agency modulates the lateral and medial prefrontal cortex responses in belief-based decision making.

Many real-life decisions in complex and changing environments are guided by the decision maker's beliefs, such as her perceived control over decision outcomes (i.e., agency), leading to phenomena like the "illusion of control". However, the neural mechanisms underlying the "agenc...

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Main Authors: Gui Xue, Qinghua He, Zhong-Lin Lu, Irwin P Levin, Qi Dong, Antoine Bechara
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3675124?pdf=render