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PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
Volume 17, Issue 5, Pages 448-453Publisher
BLACKWELL PUBLISHING
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2006.01726.x
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- NIMH NIH HHS [MH066737, MH66574] Funding Source: Medline
- NINDS NIH HHS [NS21135] Funding Source: Medline
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Emotion has been both lauded and vilified for its role in decision making. How are people able to ensure that helpful emotions guide decision making and irrelevant emotions are kept out of decision making? The orbitofrontal cortex has been identified as a neural area involved in incorporating emotion into decision making. Is this area's function specific to the integration of emotion and cognition, or does it more broadly govern whether emotional information should be integrated into cognition? The present research examined the role of orbitofrontal cortex when it was appropriate to control (i.e., prevent) the influence of emotion in decision making (Experiment 1) and to incorporate the influence of emotion in decision making (Experiment 2). Together, the two studies suggest that activity in lateral orbitofrontal cortex is associated with evaluating the contextual relevance of emotional information for decision making.
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