Performance and awareness in the Iowa Gambling Task

Behav Brain Sci. 2014 Feb;37(1):41-2. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X13000861. Epub 2014 Jan 24.

Abstract

Newell & Shanks (N&S) conclude that healthy participants learn to differentiate between the good and bad decks of the Iowa Gambling Task, and that healthy participants even have conscious knowledge about the task's payoff structure. Improved methods of analysis and new behavioral findings suggest that this conclusion is premature.

Publication types

  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Decision Making*
  • Humans
  • Unconscious, Psychology*