Effect of emotional arousal on inter-temporal decision-making: an fMRI study.
J Physiol Anthropol
; 34: 8, 2015 Mar 07.
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ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
Previous research has shown that emotion can significantly impact decision-making in humans. The current study examined whether or not and how situationally induced emotion influences people to make inter-temporal choices.METHODS:
Affective pictures were used as experiment stimuli to provoke emotion, immediately followed by subjects' performance of a delay-discounting task to measure impulsivity during functional magnetic resonance imaging.RESULTS:
Results demonstrate a subsequent process of increased impulsive decision-making following a prior exposure to both high positive and negative arousal stimuli, compared to the experiment subjects' experiences with neutral stimuli. Findings indicate that increased impulsive decision-making behaviors can occur with high arousal and can be characterized by decreased activities in the cognitive control regions such as prefronto-parietal regions.CONCLUSIONS:
These results suggest that 'stabilization of high emotional arousal' may facilitate a reduction of impulsive decision-making and implementation of longer term goals.
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Imageamento por Ressonância Magnética
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Tomada de Decisões
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Emoções
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Ano de publicação:
2015
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