Patients with emotion-to-reasoning damage
In Damasio's gambling experiment, healthy players gradually learned to favor the safer decks, while patients with **emotion-to-reasoning damage** kept drawing from the money-losing decks even as their losses piled up. Damasio proposed that a faint body-based warning steers healthy choosers away from bad decks, though whether that signal works before conscious awareness is debated—later studies found players often knew the better strategy more clearly than their play showed.
