Neural correlates of forgiveness for moral transgressions involving deception

Brain Research

Volumn 1332, Issue , 2010, Pages 90-99

  Hayashi, Akiko ^a   Abe, Nobuhito ^a   Ueno, Aya ^a   Shigemune, Yayoi ^a   Mori, Etsuro ^a   Tashiro, Manabu ^b   Fujii, Toshikatsu ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Deception; Forgivability; Forgiveness; Moral; PET; Ventromedial prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; COGNITION; CONTROL SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; FORGIVENESS; HONESTY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MISCONDUCT; MORALITY; NEUROIMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRUST;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; DECEPTION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MORALS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77951626312     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2010.03.045     Document Type: Article

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