Self-responsibility and the self-serving bias: An fMRI investigation of causal attributions

NeuroImage

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 1076-1085

  Blackwood, N J ^a   Bentall, R P ^b   Ffytche, D H ^a   Simmons, A ^a   Murray, R M ^a   Howard, R J ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL TASK; MOTIVATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RESPONSIBILITY; SELF ESTEEM; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0142074672     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1053-8119(03)00331-8     Document Type: Article

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