| Reference code: | PT/FB/BL-2020-252.02 |
| Location: | BF-GMS
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Title:
| Uncertainty deconstructed: conceptual analysis and state-of-the-art review of the ERP correlates of risk and ambiguity in decision-making
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| Publication year: | 2023
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URL:
| https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-023-01101-8
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| Abstract/Results: | ABSTRACT:
Risk and uncertainty are central concepts of decision neuroscience. However, a comprehensive review of the literature shows that most studies define risk and uncertainty in an unclear fashion or use both terms interchangeably, which hinders the integration of the existing findings. We suggest uncertainty as an umbrella term that comprises scenarios characterized by outcome variance where relevant information about the type and likelihood of outcomes may be somewhat unavailable (ambiguity) and scenarios where the likelihood of outcomes is known (risk).
These conceptual issues are problematic for studies on the temporal neurodynamics of decision-making under risk and ambiguity, because they lead to heterogeneity in task design and the interpretation of the results. To assess this problem, we conducted a state-of-the-art review of ERP studies on risk and ambiguity in decision-making. By employing the above definitions to 16 reviewed studies, our results suggest that: (a) research has focused more on risk than ambiguity processing; (b) studies assessing decision-making under risk often implemented descriptive-based paradigms, whereas studies assessing ambiguity processing equally implemented descriptive- and experience-based tasks; (c) descriptive-based studies link risk processing to increased frontal negativities (e.g., N2, N400) and both risk and ambiguity to reduced parietal positivities (e.g., P2, P3); (d) experience-based studies link risk to increased P3 amplitudes and ambiguity to increased frontal negativities and the LPC component; (e) both risk and ambiguity processing seem to be related with cognitive control, conflict monitoring, and increased cognitive demand; (f) further research and improved tasks are needed to dissociate risk and ambiguity processing.
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| Accessibility: | Document exists in file
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Language:
| eng
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Author:
| Botelho, C.
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Secondary author(s):
| Fernandes, C., Campos, C., Seixas, C., Pasion, R., Garcez, H., Ferreira-Santos, F., Barbosa, F., Maques-Teixeira, J., Paiva, T. O.
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Document type:
| Article
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Number of reproductions:
| 1
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Percentiles:
| 4
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Reference:
| Botelho, C., Fernandes, C., Campos, C., Seixas, C., Pasion, R., Garcez, H., Ferreira-Santos, F., Barbosa, F., Maques-Teixeira, J., & Paiva, T. O. (2023). Uncertainty deconstructed: conceptual analysis and state-of-the-art review of the ERP correlates of risk and ambiguity in decision-making. Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, 23(3), 522–542. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-023-01101-8
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| 2-year Impact Factor: | 2.900|2022
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| Impact factor notes: | Impact factor not available yet for 2023
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| Times cited: | 2|2024-02-16
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| Indexed document: | Yes
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| Quartile: | Q2
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| Keywords: | Decision-making / Uncertainty / Risk / Ambiguity / Event-related potentials
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Uncertainty deconstructed: conceptual analysis and state-of-the-art review of the ERP correlates of risk and ambiguity in decision-making |