## Abstract The Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) is a sensitive test for the detection of decisionβmaking impairments in several neurological and psychiatric populations. Very few studies have employed the IGT in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) investigations, in part, because the task is cogn
Construct Validity of the Iowa Gambling Task
β Scribed by Melissa T. Buelow; Julie A. Suhr
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 253 KB
- Volume
- 19
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1040-7308
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Deficits in decision-making have been repeatedly observed in various psychiatric disorders (i.e. ADHD, Pathological Gambling, Mania, OCD and Substance Abuse) as well as in frontal lobe patients. Such decision-making deficits are often assessed using the Iowa Gambling task (IGT) [1]. The IGT represen
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## Abstract Damasio proposes in his somatic marker theory that not only cognitive but also affective components are critical for decision making. Since affective judgment requires an interplay between affective and cognitive components, it might be considered a key process in decision making that h