Oliver H. Turnbull

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors take the nonspecialist reader on a guided tour through the exciting new discoveries, pointing out along the way how old psychodynamic concepts are being forged into a new scientific framework for understanding subjective experience in health and disease.

TL;DR: There were no significant differences between the two conditions, though the Facsimile Money condition produced a greater range than the Real Money condition, which is important when considering the Gambling Task as a tool in clinical neuropsychology--where there are risks of both false positive and false negative classification errors.

TL;DR: The most likely appears to be that tertiary education specifically discourages the use of emotion-based learning systems in decision-making, which suggests the paradoxical finding that better-educated participants should show poorer performance on the Iowa Gambling Task.

TL;DR: The findings of the present study are consistent with a previous claim of the Iowa group that emotion-based learning and working memory resources are doubly dissociable and suggest that the sorts of cognitive resources loaded by traditional executive tasks do not overlap, in the cognitive architecture, with the emotion- based learning skills that are required for Iowa Gambling Task performance.

TL;DR: The content of the confabulations of a neurological patient, ES, who developed a striking confabulatory syndrome following removal of a meningioma in the pituitary and suprasellar region, are investigated, finding them to represent significantly more pleasant experiences than their corresponding, misrepresented realities.