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SUBMITTER: Cartmell SC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4221213 | biostudies-other | 2014 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience 20131105 11
Experiments in financial decision-making point to two complementary processes that encode prospective gain and loss preceding the choice to purchase consumer goods. These processes involve the nucleus accumbens (NAcc) and the right anterior insula, respectively. The current experiment used functional MRI to investigate whether these regions served a similar function during an analogous social decision-making task without the influence of monetary outcomes. In this task, subjects chose partners b ...[more]