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A diverse repertoire of behavioral tasks has been employed to examine the cognitive processes and neural basis underlying decision-making in humans and animals. Some of these have their origins in psychology, others in cognitive neuroscience, yet others in economics. There is also a continual invention of novel or hybrid paradigms, sometimes motivated by deep conceptual questions stimulated by computational modeling of decision-making and sometimes motivated by specific hypotheses related to functions of neuronal systems and brain regions that are suspected of playing an important role in decision-making.
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The area of decision-making is a dynamically evolving, multifaceted area of active research that sits at the interfaces of many areas, among them psychology, neuroscience, economics, finance, political science, engineering, and mathematics. The range of decision-making tasks seen in the literature is extremely diverse, reflecting the interdisciplinary...
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Yu, A.J. (2015). Decision-Making Tasks. In: Jaeger, D., Jung, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6675-8_314
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