Neurobiology of Decision-Making

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Antonio R. Damasio, Hanna Damasio
Springer Science & Business Media, Dec 6, 2012 - Medical - 209 pages
Neuroscience has paid only little attention to decision-making for many years. Although no field of science has cohered around this topic, a variety of researchers in different areas of neuroscience ranging from cellular physiology to neuropsychology and computational neuroscience have been engaged in working on this issue. Thus, the time seemed to be ripe to bring these researchers together and discuss the state of the art of the neurobiology of decision-making in a broad forum. This book is a collection of contributions presented at that forum in Paris in October 1994 organized by the Fondation IPSEN.
 

Contents

Human Neuroanatomy Relevant to DecisionMaking
1
Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Administration Medical Center
13
N Pandya and E H Yeterian 13
28
Frontal Lobe and the Cognitive Foundation of Behavioral Action
47
Neural Mechanisms Supporting Successful Social Decisions in Simians
63
Neural Basis of Decision in Perception and in the Control of Movement
83
How the Basal Ganglia Make Decisions
101
Cerebral Correlates of Willful Acts
114
Changeux J
125
The Biological Causes of Irrationality
145
Feeling Reasons
180
Models of DecisionMaking
201
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