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¥5,070,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,170,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥390,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥90,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥3,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥900,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
In daily life, we perform repeated decision-making, considering several choices in uncertain circumstances. The pretofront cortex, which is center of cognitive/emotional neuronal network, is an important region for the ability to make decision. We hypothesize that autonomic emotional responses can affect decision-making.
The aim of our reseach was to clarify the involvement of the autonomic system during an executive functional task via developmental changes assessed using pupillometry. Subjects were 16 healthy children (7-14 years), 13 cildren with ADHD and 9 healthy adults. Pupil diameter was recorded using an eye mark recorder during cognitive shift (CS) in the Wisconsin card sorting test. The change of pupillary diameter was increased with CS in adults. Changes of pupillary diameter with CS in ADHD showed significantly lower than those in healthy children. Our study suggest that autonomic emotional response play an important role as a part of the process for decision-making.
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