期刊名称：Revue de Neuropsychologie Neurosciences Cognitives et Cliniques
印刷版ISSN：2101-6739
电子版ISSN：2102-6025
出版年度：2013
卷号：5
期号：2
页码：69-81
DOI：10.1684/nrp.2013.0257
出版社：John Libbey Eurotext
摘要：Figures See all figures Author Philippe Allain Université d’Angers, Maison des sciences humaines, laboratoire de psychologie des Pays-de-la-Loire (EA 4638), 5 bis, boulevard Lavoisier, 49045 Angers cedex 01, France, CHU d’Angers, département de neurologie, unité de neuropsychologie, 49933, Angers, France Key words: decision, risk, uncertainty, ambiguity, decision-making processes, cerebral substrata DOI : 10.1684/nrp.2013.0257 Page(s) : 69-81 Published in: 2013 Making decisions going to the sense of our own interests or those of our relatives constitutes a complex faculty indispensable for adaptation and autonomy. We daily exercise this faculty in many areas of everyday life such as finance, health care, housing or employment. In this article, we propose a synthesis of the knowledge on decision-making, mostly leaning on the current studies made in this domain. After a few conceptual reminders, primarily based on work done in the field of cognitive psychology, we stop on the contributions of neurosciences to our understanding of the mechanisms of decision-making. The emphasis is put on the role of cognition and emotions in decision-making, on the brain structures involved in decision-making as well as on the accessible assessment paradigms of decision-making. This overview shows that if the psychological mechanisms and the brain regions involved in decision-making are numerous and better known today, many uncertainties remain concerning the tools useful to understand decision-making impairments in brain-damaged patients. An important experimental work should be done in this field, given that it is essential, in terms of research, in order to refine, validate or invalidate the available theoretical propositions on decision-making and, clinically, to better understand the difficulties for brain-damaged patients in a critical area for daily autonomy. We hope that this overview will provide a useful insight into an area that is still largely unexplored in human neuropsychology.
