Neuroscience of Decision Making

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Introduction -- pt. I. Theoretical models: 1. Why does it take time to make a decision? The role of a global workspace in simple decision making. 2. Frames, brains, and content domains : neural and behavioral effects of descriptive context on preferential choice -- pt. II. Risk and uncertainty: 3. Human emotions in decision making : are they useful or disruptive? 4. Uncertainty and neuromodulation : focus on acetylcholine and sustained attention. 5. Heuristics and biases in the brain : dual neural pathways for decision making -- pt. III. Reward and loss: 6. Reward processing and decision making in the human striatum. 7. Neural mechanisms underlying reward and punishment learning in the human brain : insights from fMRI. 8. Reward and punishment processing in the human brain : clues from affective neuroscience and implications for depression research -- pt. IV. Cooperation and trust: 9. Neural bases of social decision making. 10. Social and biological evidence on motives for punishment -- Pt V. Goal-directed decision making: 11. The role of spontaneous thought in human cognition. 12. Well, what do you want to do? A cognitive neuroscience view of plan decision making. 13. Decision junctures in the creative process.