Shared brain activity for aesthetic and moral judgments: Implications for the Beauty-is-Good stereotype

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 138-148

  Tsukiura, Takashi ^a,b,c   Cabeza, Roberto ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Face; fMRI; Insula; Moral; Orbitotofrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DECISION MAKING; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MORALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TIME; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; JUDGMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MORALS; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; STEREOTYPING; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78751679707     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsq025     Document Type: Article

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