Neural Correlates of Resolving Uncertainty in Driver's Decision Making

This article reports on a research study that investigated the underlying neural mechanisms of decision-making in driving. Considering that driving involves serious risk, the authors assumed that decision-making in driving is cost weighted. Neural correlates of resolving uncertainty in driver's decision-making were investigated with an fMRI experiment that simulates the intelligent transport systems that is available to assist drivers when they are turning right at a signalized intersection (in Japan, where traffic flows on the left). Turning right in left-hand traffic at a signalized intersection was simulated by computer graphic animation-based videos. When the driver's view was occluded by a big truck, the uncertainty of the oncoming traffic was resolved by an in-car video assist system that presented the driver's occluded view. The fMRI tests showed that resolving the uncertainty with the use of the video assist system reduced activity in a distributed area including the amygdala and anterior cingulate. The authors conclude that the study results implicate the amygdala and anterior cingulate as serving a role in cost-weighted decision-making.

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• Authors:
  • Callan, Akiko M
  • Osu, Rieko
  • Yamagishi, Yuya
  • Callan, Daniel E
  • Inoue, Naomi
• Publication Date: 2009-9

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 2804-2812
• Serial:
  • Human Brain Mapping
  • Volume: 30
  • Issue Number: 9
  • Publisher: Wiley-Liss, Incorporated
  • ISSN: 1097-0193
  • Serial URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10970193

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automobile drivers; Automobile driving; Brain; Cognition; Decision making; Driver support systems; Driving simulators; Intelligent transportation systems; Neurology; Signalized intersections
• Geographic Terms: Japan
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01330592
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 28 2011 8:34AM