The role of frontoparietal cortex in intertemporal choice
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- We often have to make decisions in which we need to choose between immediate satisfaction and an objectively better but also more delayed benefit. These decisions are not only pervasive. They determine our well being in major aspects of life, including health, education and finance. The goal of this dissertation is to clarify the cognitive and neural mechanisms that enable us to make this kind of decisions. To this end, two fundamental questions are addressed. First, how can our behavior be influenced by the subjective values that we place on future outcomes? Second, how are we able to forgo temptations that may bring greater pleasure on the short run, but impede the receipt of greater future rewards? The overall thesis defended over six chapters is that the cognitive processes by which we solve both of these problems are implemented by a functionally integrated network of frontoparietal regions in the cerebral cortex.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2015 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Rodriguez, Christian A |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Psychology. |
| Primary advisor | McClure, Samuel M |
| Thesis advisor | McClure, Samuel M |
| Thesis advisor | Knutson, Brian |
| Thesis advisor | Norcia, Anthony Matthew |
| Advisor | Knutson, Brian |
| Advisor | Norcia, Anthony Matthew |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Christian A. Rodriguez. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Psychology. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2015. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2015 by Christian Anthony Rodriguez
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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