ISSN 1671-3710
CN 11-4766/R
主办:中国科学院心理研究所
出版:科学出版社

›› 2009, Vol. 17 ›› Issue (1): 98-105.

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The Property and Neural Mechanism of Temporal Discounting

HE Jia-Mei;HUANG Xi-Ting   

  1. School of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China
  • Received:2008-01-23 Revised:1900-01-01 Online:2009-01-15 Published:2009-01-15
  • Contact: HUANG Xi-Ting

Abstract: Temporal discounting is a psychological phenomenon which the value of event decreases as time , it’s the important component of behavioral choice theory. The property and mechanism of temporal discounting is reviewed. The attention is concentrate on the function of temporal discounting which display the process of its value discount with the time (exponential function ,hyperbolic function, and q- exponential function), the relation of the temporal discounting and the probability discounting, theory of delayed and accelerated temporal discounting and discussion on neural mechanism about temporal discounting. Some problems in the future researches are proposed

Key words: temporal discounting, temporal discounting function, probability discounting, delay consumption and accelerate consumption, neural mechanism

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