Neurobiology of Decision-Making

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XI

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2. Human Neuroanatomy Relevant to Decision-Making

   • H. Damasio

   Pages 1-12

3. Morphological Correlations of Human and Monkey Frontal Lobe

   • D. N. Pandya, E. H. Yeterian

   Pages 13-46

4. Frontal Lobe and the Cognitive Foundation of Behavioral Action

   • J. M. Fuster

   Pages 47-61

5. Neural Mechanisms Supporting Successful Social Decisions in Simians

   • M. Raleigh, M. McGuire, W. Melega, S. Cherry, S.-C. Huang, M. Phelps

   Pages 63-82

6. Neural Basis of Decision in Perception and in the Control of Movement

   • A. Berthoz

   Pages 83-100

7. How the Basal Ganglia Make Decisions

   • G. S. Berns, T. J. Sejnowski

   Pages 101-113

8. The Will of the Brain: Cerebral Correlates of Willful Acts

   • D. H. Ingvar

   Pages 115-123

9. Neuronal Models of Cognitive Functions Associated with the Prefrontal Cortex

   • J.-P. Changeux, S. Dehaene

   Pages 125-144

10. The Biological Causes of Irrationality

    • N. S. Sutherland

    Pages 145-156

11. Neuropsychological Approaches to Reasoning and Decision-Making

    • R. Adolphs, D. Tranel, A. Bechara, H. Damasio, A. R. Damasio

    Pages 157-179

12. Feeling Reasons

    • P. S. Churchland

    Pages 181-199

13. Epilogue: Models of Decision-Making

    • J. Altman

    Pages 201-206

14. Back Matter

    Pages 207-209

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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.

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• Neurobiologie
• Neuronale Netze
• Neuropsychologie
• attention
• biology
• computational neuroscience
• decision-making
• neural networks
• neurobiology
• neuropsychology
• neuroscience
• physiology
• reasoning

• Department of Neurology Division of Cognitive Neuroscience, The University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, USA

  A. R. Damasio, H. Damasio

• Fondation IPSEN, Paris Cedex 16, France

  Y. Christen

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