Medial prefrontal cortex predicts intertemporal choice

Volume: 23, Issue: 4, Pages: 857 - 866
Published: Apr 1, 2011
Abstract
People often make shortsighted decisions to receive small benefits in the present rather than large benefits in the future, that is, to favor their current selves over their future selves. In two studies using fMRI, we demonstrated that people make such decisions in part because they fail to engage in the same degree of self-referential processing when thinking about their future selves. When participants predicted how much they would enjoy an...
Paper Details
Title
Medial prefrontal cortex predicts intertemporal choice
Published Date
Apr 1, 2011
Volume
23
Issue
4
Pages
857 - 866
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