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Valuation of knowledge and ignorance in mesolimbic reward circuitry

The pursuit of knowledge is a basic feature of human nature. However, in domains ranging from health to finance people sometimes choose to remain ignorant. Here, we show that valence is central to the process by which the human brain evaluates the opportunity to gain information, explaining why know...

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Autores principales: Charpentier, Caroline J., Bromberg-Martin, Ethan S., Sharot, Tali
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: National Academy of Sciences 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6077743/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29954865
http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1800547115