Understanding the neurodynamic process of decision-making for mobile application downloading

In this article, we try to explore and understand the neurodynamics of the decision-making process for mobile application downloading. We begin the model development in a rather unorthodox fashion. Patterns of brain activation regions are identified, across participants, at different time instance of the decision-making process. Region-wise activation knowledge from previous studies is used to put together the entire process model like a cognitive jigsaw puzzle. We find that there are indeed a common dynamic set of activation patterns that are consistent across people and apps. That is to say that not only are there consistent patterns of activation there is a consistent change from one pattern to another across time as people make the app adoption decision. Moreover, this pattern is clearly different for decisions that end in adoption than for decisions that end with no adoption.

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This article explores and understands the neurodynamics of the decision-making process for mobile application downloading. The development of the model begins in an unorthodox fashion, identifying patterns of brain activation regions across participants at different time instances of the decision-making process. Previous studies' knowledge of region-wise activation is used to assemble the entire process model like a cognitive jigsaw puzzle. It is found that there is indeed a consistent set of dynamic activation patterns that are consistent across individuals and applications. This pattern is different for decisions resulting in adoption compared to decisions resulting in no adoption.