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Science 4 August 2006:
Vol. 313. no. 5787, pp. 600 - 601
DOI: 10.1126/science.313.5787.600b
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NEUROSCIENCE:
The Emotional Brain Weighs Its Options

Greg Miller

A team of cognitive neuroscientists reports findings on page 684 of this issue of Science that link the so-called framing effect, in which the language used to describe options often influences people's choices, to neural activity in a key emotion center in the human brain, the amygdala. (Read more.)

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