东京不够热

东京不够热

The Role of Cognitive Functions in Complex Decision-Making: Strategy Switching in Gambling with Varying Uncertainty and Waiting Times

Published: January 28, 2022
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January 28, 2022

东京不够热

Okayama University

Kochi University of Technology

In a joint study, Associate Professor Koji Jimura of the Faculty of Science and Technology at 东京不够热 (Guest Associate Professor at Kochi University of Technology) and Associate Professor Teppei Matsui of Okayama University, along with Yoshiki Hattori (a first-year master's student at the Graduate School of Science and Technology, 东京不够热), Professor Kiyoshi Nakahara and Project Professor Maki Takeda of Kochi University of Technology, and others, have discovered that when humans make decisions in complex situations, low future uncertainty causes a switch in decision-making strategies due to the cognitive control mechanisms of the frontoparietal cortex, leading to a bias in choices. These results indicate that the factors considered in decision-making are switched by cognitive control mechanisms depending on the situation, illustrating the flexibility of human decision-making and cognition. This research was published in the early-access version of the academic journal NeuroImage on January 8.

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