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| Type | Journal Article |
| Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
| Title | Conceptual representations in goal-directed decision making |
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| Item Subtype | Further Contribution (e.g. review article, editorial) |
| Refereed | Yes |
| Status | Published in final form |
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| Journal Title | Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience |
| Publisher | Psychonomic Society |
| Geographical Reach | international |
| ISSN | 1530-7026 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Number | 4 |
| Page Range | 418 - 428 |
| Date | 2008 |
| Abstract Text | Emerging evidence suggests that the long-established distinction between habit-based and goal-directed decision-making mechanisms can also be sustained in humans. Although the habit-based system has been extensively studied in humans, the goal-directed system is less well characterized. This review brings to that task the distinction between conceptual and nonconceptual representational mechanisms. Conceptual representations are structured out of semantic constituents (concepts)--the use of which requires an ability to perform some language-like syntactic processing. Decision making--as investigated by neuroscience and psychology--is normally studied in isolation from questions about concepts as studied in philosophy and cognitive psychology. We ask what role concepts play in the "goal-directed" decision-making system. We argue that one fruitful way of studying this system in humans is to investigate the extent to which it deploys conceptual representations. |
| Digital Object Identifier | 10.3758/CABN.8.4.418 |
| PubMed ID | 19033239 |
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