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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Decision Science

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  • The neurocognitive mechanisms underlying real-life self-control remain largely unelucidated.
  • While the ventromedial prefrontal cortex is implicated in value computation, other brain regions' roles are unclear.

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  • To investigate the neural correlates of decisions aligning with long-term consequences.
  • To assess brain decoding's potential for predicting individual real-life self-control.

Main Methods:

  • Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during decision-making tasks.
  • Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) of daily self-control in a large community sample (N=266).
  • Multivariate pattern analysis (MVPA) of fMRI data.

Main Results:

  • Decisions favoring long-term outcomes showed increased activity in the bilateral angular gyrus and precuneus.
  • These regions are associated with perspective-taking, including future and other-person perspectives.
  • Individual patterns of brain activity in these regions predicted real-life self-control probability.

Conclusions:

  • The bilateral angular gyrus and precuneus play a crucial role in real-life self-control.
  • Episodic future thinking and mentalizing are potential mediating mechanisms.
  • Brain decoding methods show promise for predicting individual self-control capabilities.