The medial prefrontal cortex exhibits money illusion

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 5025-5028

  Weber, Bernd ^a   Rangel, Antonio ^b   Wibral, Matthias ^a   Falk, Armin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Neuroeconomics; Ventromedial prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ILLUSION; MONEY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD;

ADULT; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN MAPPING; ECONOMICS; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REWARD; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65249171500     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0901490106     Document Type: Article

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