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On each trial, participants pump a simulated balloon without knowing when it will explode. Each pump increases the potential reward to be gained but also the probability of explosion, which wipes out all potential gains for that trial. In most studies, balloon explosion probabilities are drawn from a uniform distribution, and participants must learn explosion probabilities through trial-and-error.

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Predicting risky choices from brain activity patterns
Balloon Analog Risk-taking Task


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Predicting risky choices from brain activity patterns.
2014 Feb 18

Decreasing ventromedial prefrontal cortex activity during sequential risk-taking: an FMRI investigation of the balloon analog risk task.
Schonberg T, Fox CR, Mumford JA, Congdon E, Trepel C, Poldrack RA
Frontiers in neuroscience (Front Neurosci)

Acute effects of alcohol on feedback processing and outcome evaluation during risky decision-making: an ERP study.
Euser AS, van Meel CS, Snelleman M, Franken IH
Psychopharmacology (Psychopharmacology (Berl))
2011 Apr 8

Fecteau S, Pascual-Leone A, Zald DH, Liguori P, ThÃ©oret H, Boggio PS, Fregni F
2007 Jun 6

Neural correlates of voluntary and involuntary risk taking in the human brain: an fMRI Study of the Balloon Analog Risk Task (BART).
NeuroImage (Neuroimage)
2008 Aug 15

(J Exp Psychol Appl)
2002 Jun