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SUBMITTER: Luhmann CC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2742332 | biostudies-other | 2008 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 20081201 53
Decision makers often face choices whose consequences unfold over time. To explore the neural basis of such intertemporal choice behavior, we devised a novel two-alternative choice task with probabilistic reward delivery and contrasted two conditions that differed only in whether the outcome was revealed immediately or after some delay. In the immediate condition, we simply varied the reward probability of each option and the outcome was revealed immediately. In the delay condition, the outcome ...[more]