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Predicting Risk-Taking Behavior from Prefrontal Resting-State Activity and Personality
Risk-taking is subject to considerable individual differences. In the current study, we tested whether resting-state activity in the prefrontal cortex and trait sensitivity to reward and punishment can help predict risk-taking behavior. Prefrontal activity at rest was assessed in seventy healthy vol...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3792091/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24116176 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0076861 |
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author | Studer, Bettina Pedroni, Andreas Rieskamp, Jörg |
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description | Risk-taking is subject to considerable individual differences. In the current study, we tested whether resting-state activity in the prefrontal cortex and trait sensitivity to reward and punishment can help predict risk-taking behavior. Prefrontal activity at rest was assessed in seventy healthy volunteers using electroencephalography, and compared to their choice behavior on an economic risk-taking task. The Behavioral Inhibition System/Behavioral Activation System scale was used to measure participants’ trait sensitivity to reward and punishment. Our results confirmed both prefrontal resting-state activity and personality traits as sources of individual differences in risk-taking behavior. Right-left asymmetry in prefrontal activity and scores on the Behavioral Inhibition System scale, reflecting trait sensitivity to punishment, were correlated with the level of risk-taking on the task. We further discovered that scores on the Behavioral Inhibition System scale modulated the relationship between asymmetry in prefrontal resting-state activity and risk-taking. The results of this study demonstrate that heterogeneity in risk-taking behavior can be traced back to differences in the basic physiology of decision-makers’ brains, and suggest that baseline prefrontal activity and personality traits might interplay in guiding risk-taking behavior. |
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spelling | pubmed-37920912013-10-10 Predicting Risk-Taking Behavior from Prefrontal Resting-State Activity and Personality Studer, Bettina Pedroni, Andreas Rieskamp, Jörg PLoS One Research Article Risk-taking is subject to considerable individual differences. In the current study, we tested whether resting-state activity in the prefrontal cortex and trait sensitivity to reward and punishment can help predict risk-taking behavior. Prefrontal activity at rest was assessed in seventy healthy volunteers using electroencephalography, and compared to their choice behavior on an economic risk-taking task. The Behavioral Inhibition System/Behavioral Activation System scale was used to measure participants’ trait sensitivity to reward and punishment. Our results confirmed both prefrontal resting-state activity and personality traits as sources of individual differences in risk-taking behavior. Right-left asymmetry in prefrontal activity and scores on the Behavioral Inhibition System scale, reflecting trait sensitivity to punishment, were correlated with the level of risk-taking on the task. We further discovered that scores on the Behavioral Inhibition System scale modulated the relationship between asymmetry in prefrontal resting-state activity and risk-taking. The results of this study demonstrate that heterogeneity in risk-taking behavior can be traced back to differences in the basic physiology of decision-makers’ brains, and suggest that baseline prefrontal activity and personality traits might interplay in guiding risk-taking behavior. Public Library of Science 2013-10-07 /pmc/articles/PMC3792091/ /pubmed/24116176 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0076861 Text en © 2013 Studer et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Studer, Bettina Pedroni, Andreas Rieskamp, Jörg Predicting Risk-Taking Behavior from Prefrontal Resting-State Activity and Personality |
title | Predicting Risk-Taking Behavior from Prefrontal Resting-State Activity and Personality |
title_full | Predicting Risk-Taking Behavior from Prefrontal Resting-State Activity and Personality |
title_fullStr | Predicting Risk-Taking Behavior from Prefrontal Resting-State Activity and Personality |
title_full_unstemmed | Predicting Risk-Taking Behavior from Prefrontal Resting-State Activity and Personality |
title_short | Predicting Risk-Taking Behavior from Prefrontal Resting-State Activity and Personality |
title_sort | predicting risk-taking behavior from prefrontal resting-state activity and personality |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3792091/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24116176 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0076861 |
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