Delay discounting without decision-making: Medial prefrontal cortex and amygdala activations reflect immediacy processing and correlate with impulsivity and anxious-depressive traits

Humans value rewards less when these are delivered in the future as opposed to immediately, a phenomenon referred to as delay discounting. While delay discounting has been studied during the anticipation of rewards and in the context of intertemporal decision-making, little is known about its neural...

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Main Authors: Vera eLudwig, Corinna eNüsser, Thomas eGoschke, Dina eWittfoth-Schardt, Corinde eWiers, Susanne eErk, Björn H Schott, Henrik eWalter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnbeh.2015.00280/full