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PSYCHONOMIC BULLETIN & REVIEW
Volume 11, Issue 4, Pages 742-747Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.3758/BF03196629
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- NIDA NIH HHS [DA-R01 014119] Funding Source: Medline
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This article examines the theoretical basis of decision-making deficits exhibited by cocaine abusers in a laboratory decision-making task first described by Bechara, Damasio, Damasio, and Anderson (1994). A total of 12 male cocaine abusers and 14 comparison subjects performed the task, and the cocaine group performed significantly worse than the comparison group. A cognitive modeling analysis (Busemeyer & Stout, 2002) was used to estimate three parameters that measure importance of the cognitive, motivational, and response processes for determining the observed performance deficit. The results of this analysis indicated, for the first time, that motivational and choice consistency factors, but not learning/memory were mainly responsible for the decision-making deficit of the cocaine abusers in this task.
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