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SUBMITTER: Sacre P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5719351 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sacré Pierre P Subramanian Sandya S Kerr Matthew S D MSD Kahn Kevin K Johnson Matthew A MA Bulacio Juan J González-Martínez Jorge A JA Sarma Sridevi V SV Gale John T JT
Scientific reports 20171207 1
During financial decision-making tasks, humans often make "rational" decisions, where they maximize expected reward. However, this rationality may compete with a bias that reflects past outcomes. That is, if one just lost money or won money, this may impact future decisions. It is unclear how past outcomes influence future decisions in humans, and how neural circuits encode present and past information. In this study, six human subjects performed a financial decision-making task while we recorde ...[more]