Development of decision-making paradigms for immersive VR environment

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We are continuously making decision in our daily life: What should I eat? How should I invest my money? Etc. Decision-making skills can have great impact on our life and, if impaired, can lead to deleterious consequences on health and well-fare. Although these are fundamental to human behaviors and actions, little is known on how the human brain makes these lifestyle choices. One reason for this is that these skills must be studied in contexts representative of real life activities, yet within scientific laboratory-controlled settings. Thanks to recent virtual reality (VR) technological advances, we can finally study lifestyle decision-making in these settings. The proposed program will use these immersive VR technological advances and combine them with noninvasive brain stimulation and brain imaging.