Year: 2016
Type: dissertation
Abstract: Making a decision consists of committing to a plan of action, usually selected between two or more competing alternatives. Numerous fields have studied the processes involved in decision-making including psychology, economics, philosophy and statistics, to name only a few. In neuroscience the study of decision-making has been extremely fruitful in recent years and has focused on two main aspects: (1) perceptual decisionmaking, interested in understanding how external information is perceived by the sensory systems and used to make decisions; (2) value based decision-making, interested in the mechanisms that cause and result from the association of subjective values to the possible outcomes of a decision.(...)
Author: David Raposo
Language: Spanish
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2622970015