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Gain- and Loss-Related Brain Activation Are Associated with Information Search Differences in Risky Gambles: An fMRI and Eye-Tracking Study.
| Content Provider | Europe PMC |
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| Author | Häusler, Alexander Niklas Oroz Artigas, Sergio Trautner, Peter Weber, Bernd |
| Copyright Year | 2016 |
| Abstract | People differ in the way they approach and handle choices with unsure outcomes. In this study, we demonstrate that individual differences in the neural processing of gains and losses relates to attentional differences in the way individuals search for information in gambles. Fifty subjects participated in two independent experiments. Participants first completed an fMRI experiment involving financial gains and losses. Subsequently, they performed an eye-tracking experiment on binary choices between risky gambles, each displaying monetary outcomes and their respective probabilities. We find that individual differences in gain and loss processing relate to attention distribution. Individuals with a stronger reaction to gains in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex paid more attention to monetary amounts, while a stronger reaction in the ventral striatum to losses was correlated with an increased attention to probabilities. Reaction in the posterior cingulate cortex to losses was also found to correlate with an increased attention to probabilities. Our data show that individual differences in brain activity and differences in information search processes are closely linked. |
| Page Count | 13 |
| Journal | eNeuro |
| Volume Number | 3 |
| PubMed Central reference number | PMC5032244 |
| Issue Number | 5 |
| PubMed reference number | 27679814 |
| e-ISSN | 23732822 |
| DOI | 10.1523/ENEURO.0189-16.2016 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Society for Neuroscience |
| Publisher Date | 2016-09-22 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Rights License | This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium provided that the original work is properly attributed. Copyright © 2016 Häusler et al. |
| Subject Keyword | decision-making eye-tracking fMRI information search reward |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Medicine Neuroscience |
