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| Title |
Modulating the Activity of the DLPFC and OFC Has Distinct Effects on Risk and Ambiguity Decision-Making: A tDCS Study
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, August 2017
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01417 |
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| Authors |
Xiaolan Yang, Mei Gao, Jinchuan Shi, Hang Ye, Shu Chen |
| Abstract |
Human beings are constantly exposed to two types of uncertainty situations, risk and ambiguity. Neuroscientific studies suggest that the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) and the orbital frontal cortex (OFC) play significant roles in human decision making under uncertainty. We applied the transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) device to modulate the activity of participants' DLPFC and OFC separately, comparing the causal relationships between people's behaviors and the activity of the corresponding brain cortex when confronted with situations of risk and ambiguity. Our experiment employed a pre-post design and a risk/ambiguity decision-making task, from which we could calculate the preferences via an estimation model. We found evidences that modulating the activity of the DLPFC using right anodal/left cathodal tDCS significantly enhanced the participants' preferences for risk, whereas modulating the activity of the OFC with right anodal/left cathodal tDCS significantly decreased the participants' preferences for ambiguity. The reverse effects were also observed in the reversed tDCS treatments on the two areas. Our results suggest that decision-making processes under risk and ambiguity are complicated and may be encoded in two distinct circuits in our brains as the DLPFC primarily impacts decisions under risk whereas the OFC affects ambiguity. |
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| Country | Count | As % |
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| United States | 2 | 40% |
| Italy | 1 | 20% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 20% |
| Unknown | 1 | 20% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
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| Members of the public | 3 | 60% |
| Scientists | 2 | 40% |
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| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 89 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Student > Ph. D. Student | 20 | 22% |
| Student > Master | 12 | 13% |
| Researcher | 9 | 10% |
| Student > Bachelor | 7 | 8% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 5 | 6% |
| Other | 11 | 12% |
| Unknown | 25 | 28% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Psychology | 23 | 26% |
| Neuroscience | 20 | 22% |
| Engineering | 4 | 4% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 2 | 2% |
| Decision Sciences | 2 | 2% |
| Other | 12 | 13% |
| Unknown | 26 | 29% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 21 April 2023.
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