A functional imaging investigation of moral deliberation and moral intuition

NeuroImage

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 2707-2716

  Harenski, Carla L ^a   Antonenko, Olga ^c   Shane, Matthew S ^a   Kiehl, Kent A ^a,b  

^a MIND RESEARCH NETWORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTUITION; MENTAL TASK; MORALITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PREDICTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTUITION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MORALS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 71849090725     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.10.062     Document Type: Article

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