Decision amid uncertainty

Jonathan D. Cohen and Gary Aston-Jones ()
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Jonathan D. Cohen: Mind and Behavior, Green Hall, Princeton University
Gary Aston-Jones: Laboratory of Neuromodulation and Behavior, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Nature, 2005, vol. 436, issue 7050, 471-472

Abstract: Choosing whether to stick to a belief or to abandon it in the face of uncertainty is central to human behaviour. Modelling implicates brain chemicals called neuromodulators in adjudicating this essential decision.

Date: 2005
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