The study of decision making spans such varied fields as neuroscience, psychology,
economics, statistics, political science, and computer science. Despite this diversity of …

A decision is a commitment to a proposition or plan of action based on information and
values associated with the possible outcomes. The process operates in a flexible timeframe …

The ability and opportunity to make decisions and carry out effective actions in pursuit of
goals is central to intelligent life. Recent research has provided significant new insights into …

Neuroscience has paid only little attention to decision-making for many years. Although no
field of science has cohered around this topic, a variety of researchers in different areas of …

The aim of statistical decision theories is to understand how evidence, prior knowledge, and
values lead an organism to commit to one of a number of alternatives. Two main statistical …

INTRODUCTION Research on the neurobiology of decision-making has emerged as a fertile
ground for integrating cognitive, systems, computational, and, more recently, circuit and …

Decision-making is an important aspect of daily life. Moreover, dysfunctions of decision-
making play a critical role in a number of neuropsychiatric disorders. Several important …

Once considered the province of philosophy and the behavioral sciences, the process of
making decisions has received increasing scrutiny from neurobiologists. Recent research …

Decision making refers to the ability of humans and other animals to choose between
competing courses of action based on the relative value of their consequences. This …

Neuroeconomics seeks to gain a greater understanding of decision making by combining
theoretical and methodological principles from the fields of psychology, economics, and …