Twenty Years After the Iowa Gambling Task: Rationality, Emotion, and Decision-Making

• Main Author: Jong-Tsun Huang (auth)
• Other Authors: Yao-Chu Chiu (auth), Ching-Hung Lin (auth), Jeng-Ren Duann (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2018
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Neurosciences; emotion; Iowa Gambling Task; decision-making; ventromedial prefrontal cortex; gain-loss frequency; reward & punishment; rationality; expected value; somatic marker hypothesis
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Summary

The world is full of uncertainty. In unpredictable circumstances, can emotions facilitate advantageous decision-making? A neuroscience team, led by Antonio Damasio, explored this question using the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT). To the present day, the findings of numerous IGT-related investigations strongly influence clinical and interdisciplinary research, for example, in neuroeconomics and neuromarketing. This special issue examines IGT-based research progress over the past 20 years through literature reviews, clinical examinations, model construction, theoretical integration, and brain imaging technology. Both supportive and opposing viewpoints are provided to frame correlations between rationality, emotion, decision-making, and IGT. Potential future directions for IGT studies are discussed

Physical Description

1 electronic resource (275 p.)

ISBN

978-2-88945-528-7
9782889455287

Access

Open Access