Neuroscience of decision making / edited by Oshin Vartanian and David R. Mandel.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Why does it take time to make a decision? The role of a global workspace in simple decision making / Mariano Sigman and Stanislas Dehane -- Frames, brains, and content domains : Neural and behavioral effects of descriptive context on preferential choice / David R. Mandel and Oshin Vartanian -- Human emotions in decision making ; Are they useful or disruptive? / Antoine Bechara -- Uncertainty and neuromodulation : Acetylcholine and sustained attention / Angela J. Yu -- Heuristics and biases in the brain : Dual neural pathways for decision making / Whim doe Negs and Vined Goal -- Reward processing and decision making in the human striatum / Mauricio R. Delgado and Elizabeth Tricomi -- Neural mechanism underlying reward and punishment learning in the human brain : INsights from fMRI / John P. O'Doherty -- Reward and punishment processing in the human brain : Clues from affective neuroscience and implications for depression research / Diego A. Pizzagalli [and others] -- Neural bases of social decision making / Alan G. Sanfey and James K. Rilling -- Social and biological evidence on motives for punishment / Daniel Houser, Robert Kurzban, and Erte Xiao -- The role of spontaneous thought in human cognition / Kaline Christoff, Alan Gordon, and Rachelle Smith -- Well, what do you want to do? A cognitive neuroscience view of plan decision making / Jorge Moll and Jordan Grafman -- Decision junctures in the creative process / Oshin Vartanian.

The intersection between the fields of behavioral decision research and neuroscience has proved to be fertile ground for interdisciplinary research. Whereas the former is rich in formalized models of choice, the latter is rife with techniques for testing behavioral models at the brain level. As a result, there has been the rapid emergence of progressively more sophisticated biological models of choice, geared toward the development of ever more complete mechanistic models of behavior. This volume provides a coherent framework for distilling some of the key themes that have emerged as a function of this research program, and highlights what we have learned about judgment and decision making as a result. Although topics that are theoretically relevant to judgment and decision making researchers are addressed, the book also ventures somewhat beyond the traditional boundaries of this area to tackle themes that would be of interest to a greater community of scholars. Neuroscience of Decision Making provides contemporary and essential reading for researchers and students of cognitive psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, and economics.