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AnERPStudyonDecisionsbetweenAttractiveFemales andMoney JianminZeng1,2*.,YujiaoWang1,2.,QinglinZhang1,2 * 1SchoolofPsychology,SouthwestUniversity,Chongqing,China,2KeyLaboratoryofCognitionandPersonality,MinistryofEducation,China Abstract To investigate the neural processes of decision-makings between attractive females and money, we recorded 18 male participants’ brain event-related potentials (ERPs) when they performed a novel task of deciding between viewing an attractive female’s fuzzy picture in clear and gaining a certain amount of money. Two types of attractive females were included:sexyfemalesandbeautifulfemales.Severalnewelectrophysiologicaldiscoverieswereobtainedasfollowing.First, thebeautifulfemalesvs.moneytask(taskB)elicitedalargerpositiveERPdeflection(P2)thanthesexyfemalesvs.money task(taskS)between290and340ms,andthisprobablyrelatedtotheperceptionmatchingprocessbetweenavisualinput andaninternalrepresentationorexpectation.Second,taskSevokedgreaternegativeERPwaves(N2)thantaskBduringthe timewindowof340–390ms,andthismightrelatetoresponseconflictandcognitivemonitoringforimpulsivetendency. Third,theERPpositivityintaskSwaslargerthantaskBinthetimeintervalof550–1000ms,reflectingthatsexyfemale imagesmayhavehigherdecisionvalueformalesthanbeautifulfemaleimages.Fourth,comparedwithchoosingtogain money,choosingtoviewanattractivefemaleevokedalargerlatepositivecomponent(LPC)duringthesametimewindow, possiblybecauseattractivefemalesaremoredirectandevolutionarilyearlierrewardsformalesthanmoneyamounts. Citation: Zeng J, Wang Y, Zhang Q (2012) An ERP Study on Decisions between Attractive Females and Money. PLoS ONE 7(10): e45945. doi:10.1371/ journal.pone.0045945 Editor:JamesKilner,UniversityCollegeLondon,UnitedKingdom ReceivedMarch4,2012;AcceptedAugust23,2012;PublishedOctober15,2012 Copyright: ? 2012 Zeng et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricteduse,distribution,andreproductionina