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

• Autore principale: Jong-Tsun Huang (auth)
• Altri autori: Yao-Chu Chiu (auth), Ching-Hung Lin (auth), Jeng-Ren Duann (auth)
• Natura: Elettronico Capitolo di libro
• Lingua: inglese
• Pubblicazione: Frontiers Media SA 2018
• Serie: Frontiers Research Topics
• Soggetti: Neurosciences; emotion; Iowa Gambling Task; decision-making; ventromedial prefrontal cortex; gain-loss frequency; reward & punishment; rationality; expected value; somatic marker hypothesis
• Accesso online: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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 stro...