Predicting decisions in human social interactions using real-time fMRI and pattern classification.

ABSTRACT: Negotiation and trade typically require a mutual interaction while simultaneously resting in uncertainty which decision the partner ultimately will make at the end of the process. Assessing already during the negotiation in which direction one's counterpart tends would provide a tremendous advantage. Recently, neuroimaging techniques combined with multivariate pattern classification of the acquired data have made it possible to discriminate subjective states of mind on the basis of their neuronal activation signature. However, to enable an online-assessment of the participant's mind state both approaches need to be extended to a real-time technique. By combining real-time functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and online pattern classification techniques, we show that it is possible

SUBMITTER: Hollmann M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3189203 | biostudies-literature | 2011

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature