Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Apr 12.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Opin Behav Sci. 2015 Aug 20;5:100–107. doi: 10.1016/j.cobeha.2015.08.004

Figure 1.

Figure 1

The cortical volume of a region in posterior parietal cortex is predictive of individual risk attitudes. Top: exploratory analysis revealed a significant positive correlation between the volume of the highlighted region (left) and risk tolerance (right) in a group of 28 individuals. Bottom: the result was confirmed in an independent group of participants, using a different scanner and a different behavioral task to estimate risk attitudes. Gray matter volume in the same region significantly predicted risk tolerance (p < 0.05; left), while the volume of a control region in the vicinity of the primary motor/somatosensory cortex was not predictive of risk attitudes (right). Adapted from [19].