Open AccessOverlapping Risky Decision-Making and Olfactory Processing Ability in HIV-Infected Individuals
Author(s) -
Christopher Jackson,
Narayan Rai,
Charlee McLean,
Maria Hipolito,
Flora Hamilton,
Suad Kapetanovic,
Evaristus Nwulia
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
clinical and experimental psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2471-2701
DOI - 10.4172/2471-2701.1000160
Subject(s) - iowa gambling task , olfaction , psychology , confirmatory factor analysis , cohort , audiology , clinical psychology , structural equation modeling , developmental psychology , cognition , psychiatry , neuroscience , medicine , machine learning , computer science
Given neuroimaging evidences of overlap in the circuitries for decision-making and olfactory processing, we examined the hypothesis that impairment in psychophysical tasks of olfaction would independently predict poor performances on Iowa Gambling Task (IGT), a laboratory task that closely mimics real-life decision-making, in a US cohort of HIV-infected (HIV+) individuals.