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Definition of 'Decision Making'

The process of making a selective intellectual judgment when presented with several complex alternatives consisting of several variables, and usually defining a course of action or an idea.

Common names: Decision Making

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Comparing the bird in the hand with the ones in the bush.

9 Jun 2009 In this issue of Neuron, Boorman and colleagues shed new light on the roles of lateral frontopolar and ventromedial prefrontal cortices in task switching and decision ... Read more...


How green is the grass on the other side? Frontopolar cortex and the evidence in favor of alternative courses of action.

9 Jun 2009 Behavioral flexibility is the hallmark of goal-directed behavior. Whereas a great deal is known about the neural substrates of behavioral adjustment when it is explicitly cued by features of the external environment, little is known about how we ... Read more...


Memory and decision making in the frontal cortex during visual motion processing for smooth pursuit eye movements.

9 Jun 2009 Cortical motor areas are thought to contribute "higher-order processing," but what that processing might include is unknown. Previous studies of the smooth pursuit-related discharge of supplementary eye field (SEF) neurons have not distinguished ... Read more...

 

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Technical information about 'Decision Making'

Definition: The process of making a selective intellectual judgment when presented with several complex alternatives consisting of several variables, and usually defining a course of action or an idea.

Descriptor UI: D003657

Alternative terms: Decision Making;

Related Mesh Headings: Decision Support Techniques; Game Theory; Policy Making;

Allowable Qualifiers: drug effects; physiology; radiation effects; ethics;

Tree Number: F02.463.785.373;

Technical Notes: not for a physician making a diagnostic decision: this is /diag or if GEN, DIAGNOSIS or DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL

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