Neural correlates of human virtue judgment

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1886-1891

  Takahashi, Hidehiko ^a,b   Kato, Motoichiro ^c   Matsuura, Masato ^b   Koeda, Michihiko ^d   Yahata, Noriaki ^d   Suhara, Tetsuya ^a   Okubo, Yoshiro ^d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blameworthiness; Moral; Orbitofrontal cortex; Praiseworthiness; Superior temporal sulcus; Virtue

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTRUISM; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MORALITY; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MORALS; VIRTUES;

EID: 47649088486     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhm214     Document Type: Article

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