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en-wikipedia-org-896		Somatic marker hypothesis - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	3480	436	54	The somatic marker hypothesis, formulated by Antonio Damasio and associated researchers, proposes that emotional processes guide (or bias) behavior, particularly decision-making.[1][2] This led Antonio Damasio to hypothesize that decision-making deficits following vmPFC damage result from the inability to use emotions to help guide future behavior based on past experiences. He is currently the David Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience, Psychology and Philosophy at the University of Southern California and an adjunct professor at the Salk Institute.[7] Damasio heads the Brain and Creativity Institute, and has authored several books: his most recent work, Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain (2010), explores the relationship between the brain and consciousness.[8] Damasio's research in neuroscience has shown that emotions play a central role in social cognition and decision-making.[9] Since the Iowa gambling task measures participants' quickness in "developing anticipatory emotional responses to guide advantageous choices",[12] it is helpful in testing the somatic marker hypothesis.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-896.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-896.txt