Decision Making: Fundamentals and Applications

This book offers a comprehensive review of current topics in decision making. It covers new findings relating to foundations, mechanisms, and consequences of decisions, shedding light on the cognitive processes from different disciplinary perspectives. Chapters report on psychological studies of the cognitive mechanisms of decision making, neuroimaging studies on the neural correlates, studies of patient populations to characterize alterations in decision making in specific diseases, as well as discussions concerning philosophical and ethical issues.