Choosing between small, likely rewards and large, unlikely rewards activates inferior and orbital prefrontal cortex.
Patients sustaining lesions of the orbital prefrontal cortex (PFC) exhibit marked impairments in the performance of laboratory-based gambling, or risk-taking, tasks, suggesting that this part of the human PFC contributes to decision-making cognition. However, to date, little is known about the parti...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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1999
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