
Inside the Mind
Naked Neuroscience, from the Naked Scientists
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Are You a Professional Stock Broker?
subjects will perform what they call the asset pricing task in an ethomoryscan. In a brain scanner and the task displays trend lines which show you the recent history for individual stocks. They are shown to you sequentially and then you can make a decision about with each one whether you want to invest stick with your current investment or sell your current investments periodically those are updated as if it's like is it it's the next day. But these aren't professional stock brokers right these are just participants in the study. Exactly they're not professional stock brokers they could have invested in the stock market themselves if they wanted to but only as Joe public they are not Professional Stock Brokers.
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