A total of 24 male subjects (mean age = 21.7 years, SD = 1.8 years), who were university students, participated in the experiment. Event-related functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) was used to capture the subjects’ brain activity when performing the IGT. In this study, we employed the clinical version of the IGT, in which response options are not only different in the long-term outcome, but also associated with different punishment frequencies. The current study aimed to gain an understanding of how punishment frequency in the IGT would be processed and its association with subjects’ reward preferences. Cognition, 50(1), 7–15 1994) normal subjects would gradually learn to prefer obtaining rewards for long-term benefits than seeking immediate rewards to maximize the overall profit. It has been widely found that in the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT Bechara et al.
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