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Neuropsychology
Decision-making and the Iowa Gambling Task
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Source: Laboratories of Jonas T. Kaplan and Sarah I. Gimbel—University of Southern California
Decision-making is an important component of human executive function, in which a choice about a course of action or cognition is made from many possibilities. Damage to the inferior parts of the frontal ...
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Decision-making is an important component of human executive function, one in which a choice about a course of action is made from many possibilities.
For instance, a person?s ability to obtain a beverage could result from making good decisions, like choosing to go to the cash register and pay for it, or?poor ones, such as running out the ...
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