MBI Researcher Veit Stuphorn and former graduate student Xiaomo Chen published a new paper on how the prefrontal cortex plays a causal role in the regulation of decision making in situations involving high risk.
See media reports on the research at the following sites:
- NPR: In Lab Turned Casino, Gambling Monkeys Help Scientists Find Risk-Taking Brain Area
- Discover Magazine: Gambling Monkeys Shed Light on Risky Behavior
- UPI: Gambling monkeys help reveal brain region linked to risky decisions
- Eurekalert/AAAS: Gambling monkeys help scientists find brain area linked to high-risk behavior
- Scientific American: “Gambling Brain” Studies Make Clear Why It’s Hard to Stop Rolling the Dice
- The Times of London: Monkeys give clue to help for gamblers