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SUBMITTER: Kable JW
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2845395 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature neuroscience 20071104 12
Neuroimaging studies of decision-making have generally related neural activity to objective measures (such as reward magnitude, probability or delay), despite choice preferences being subjective. However, economic theories posit that decision-makers behave as though different options have different subjective values. Here we use functional magnetic resonance imaging to show that neural activity in several brain regions--particularly the ventral striatum, medial prefrontal cortex and posterior ci ...[more]