Decision Making

This book offers a comprehensive review of current topics in decision making. It covers new findings relating to foundations, mechanisms, and consequences of decisions, shedding light on the cognitive processes from different disciplinary perspectives. Chapters report on psychological studies of the cognitive mechanisms of decision making, neuroimaging studies on the neural correlates, studies of patient populations to characterize alterations in decision making in specific diseases, as well as discussions concerning philosophical and ethical issues.

1. Multi-channel Information Integration under Threat of Unaffordable Loss. - 2. Decisions in Single Case Diagnostics. - 3. Decision Making in Depression. - 4. Determinants of Decision Making in Health-related Behaviour. - 5. Coherence-based Information Search. - 6. Predictive Neural Representations. - 7. Dual Process Model of Intertemporal Choice. - 8. The Role of the Glutamate System in Decision Making. - 9. Intertemporal Choice in the Schizophrenia Spectrum. - 10. Decision Making in ADHD.